https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/FDC en-us 2017-10-12 12:23:57 UTC 2017-10-24 12:03:57 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/FDC/wish/196420154 The physical violence in section 2 was mostly portrayed through direct contact to Douglass. He was whipped by Mr.covey and even wrestles with him. After his physical encounters this helps him realize that he is now a man.]]> 2017-10-12 13:45:16 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/FDC/wish/196420154 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/FDC/wish/199407556 Why is Sophia Auld an important character?
Frederick Douglass had previous masters but none were like Mrs. Auld because she had never owned a slave before. She is the kindest owner Douglass had ever had but that quickly turns around after the irresponsible power and evils of slavery get to her head.  
Quote from page 889 Heath: " The fatal poison of irresponsible power was already in her hands and soon commenced its infernal work." 
Sophia Auld also taught Douglass the ABC's and began teaching him three to four letter words before she was forbidden to teach further from her husband. This motivated Douglass to continue his pursuit of learning to read and write through self teaching. ]]> 2017-10-22 23:27:29 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/FDC/wish/199407556 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/FDC/wish/199548229 In Frederick Douglass's Narrative, he describes how Mr. Auld became increasingly religious, which for most people made them kinder to slaves, but instead he became even more cruel. "I indulged a faint hope that his conversion would lead him to emancipate his slaves, and that, if he did not do this, it would at any rate, make him mire kind and humane ... if it had any effect on his character, it made him more cruel and hateful in all his ways" (Douglass 898). Douglass was hoping that by Mr. Auld finding religion, he would have been willing to free his slaves or at the very least be kinder to them. However, what happened was the polar opposite, and Mr. Auld became even more cruel and inhumane. He was using religion as an excuse to treat his slaves with less humanity.]]> 2017-10-23 13:08:33 UTC https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/FDC/wish/199548229 https://padlet.com/brenner13_2/FDC/wish/199854151
The reason that Mr. Auld forbidding Sophia from teaching Douglass how to read makes such an impression on us as readers is his explanation. Mr. Auld's reason for preventing slaves from becoming literate is that  they would not be as easy to control. Also by saying this he implies that slaves have the capability to be just as functional as white people, but are denied that so that white still maintain their false superiority.

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