https://padlet.com/dmteske/ne03r2gwwoe1 Made with an open mind en-us 2019-02-27 16:23:10 UTC 2019-02-28 16:00:22 UTC hello@padlet.com dmteske https://padlet.com/dmteske/ne03r2gwwoe1/wish/335980770 Along with the use of figurative language, Douglass uses his story to reveal the effects of slavery on slaves and slaveowners, which supports his position to end slavery.  ]]> 2019-02-27 16:27:52 UTC https://padlet.com/dmteske/ne03r2gwwoe1/wish/335980770 dmteske https://padlet.com/dmteske/ne03r2gwwoe1/wish/335981855 Topic Sentence: Douglass uses figurative language in his narrative to support his position to end slavery.
Quote 1:"the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!" -Excerpt 4
Douglass uses this example of a metaphor to emphasize and add a feeling that slavery was this dark and horrible thing that influenced Douglass to become a brute.
Quote 2: "there stood slavery, a stern reality, glaring frightfully upon us,-its robes already crimsoned with the blood of millions, and even now feasting itself greedily upon our own flesh."-Excerpt 5]]> 2019-02-27 16:29:22 UTC https://padlet.com/dmteske/ne03r2gwwoe1/wish/335981855 dmteske https://padlet.com/dmteske/ne03r2gwwoe1/wish/335982561 Topic Sentence: Frederick Douglass shows how slavery is terrible for slaves in the narrative to support his bigger position to end slavery.
Quote 3: "No words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory victim, seemed to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose. The louder she screamed, the harder he whipped;"-Excerpt 1
Quote 4: "Mr. Severe, the overseer, used to stand by the door of the quarter, armed with a large hickory stick and large cowskin, ready to whip any one who was so unfortunate as not to hear, or, from any other cause, was prevented from being ready to start for the field at the sound of the horn." -Excerpt 2]]> 2019-02-27 16:30:20 UTC https://padlet.com/dmteske/ne03r2gwwoe1/wish/335982561 dmteske https://padlet.com/dmteske/ne03r2gwwoe1/wish/335982852 Topic Sentence: Frederick Douglass describes how slavery corrupts slave holders in his narrative to support his larger position to end slavery.
Quote 5: "That cheerful eye, under the influence of slavery, soon became red with rage; that voice, made of all sweet accord, changed to one of harsh and horrid discord;"
Quote 6:"Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these heavenly qualities. Under its influence, the tender heart became stone, and the lamblike disposition gave way to one of tiger-like fierceness."]]> 2019-02-27 16:30:42 UTC https://padlet.com/dmteske/ne03r2gwwoe1/wish/335982852 dmteske https://padlet.com/dmteske/ne03r2gwwoe1/wish/335983177 Hook: Imagine being born a slave and being whipped and treated like property every single week with no escape.
Background information:  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass was written by Frederick Douglass in 1845 and got attention from important people because it was writtn by a first hand account of a slave.
Thesis Statement: Along with the use of figurative language, Douglass uses his story to reveal the effects of slavery on slaves and slaveowners, which supports his position to end slavery.  ]]> 2019-02-27 16:31:08 UTC https://padlet.com/dmteske/ne03r2gwwoe1/wish/335983177 dmteske https://padlet.com/dmteske/ne03r2gwwoe1/wish/335983557 Topic Sentence: ]]> 2019-02-27 16:31:39 UTC https://padlet.com/dmteske/ne03r2gwwoe1/wish/335983557