English Literature (Classic and Modern)

A Narrative in the life of Frederick Douglass
Part 1: A Narrative in the life of Frederick Douglass
Response Questions

Chapters 1-5 Choose three of the following questions and respond. Be sure to write the correct number for each response and be detailed.

1. Explain the relationship of slaveholder to overseer to slave.

2. Explain life on the platation for slaveholder, overseer and slave.

3. write a diary entry of the day in the lifeof a slave.

4. Explain the prejudice that existed among slaves from different plantations. Examine the irony of this prejudice.

5. What was the system of justice on the platation? How does this system differ from the system developed in the early days of the union?

6. What was Fredrick’s life like on the platation? Why was he so eager to go to Baltimore?
Chapters 6-10: Choose three of the following questions and respond. Be sure to write the correct number for each response and be detailed.

7. Explain the irony of what Mr. Auld taught Frederick when he was forbid Mrs. Auld to teach him to read.

8. Examine the concept of reading as equivalent to freedom.

9. Discuss the concept of learning as a curse rather rthan a blessing. Frederick makes this comment in chapter 7. Is it possible that he is correct?

10. Write a diary entry of a memory you have about an early reading experience. Discuss how your experience differed from Frederick’s.

11. Why is learning to read so important to practicing freedom? Did the slave owners understand that learning to read was so important to practicing freedom? Explain your response.

Chapter 11 and the Appendix: Choose two of the following questions and respond. Be sure to write the correct question number and for each response.

15. Often Frederick has more than one master (i.e.: Masters Thomas and Hugh Auld; Master Thomas and Mr. Covey). Explain how this is possible. Who actually owned Frederick?

16. Chapter 11 deals with the names of slaves. Notice that Frederick Douglass changed names three times. Disscuess why he changed names.

17. Douglass makes the point that he is initially uncomforable speaking to a white audience because he still felt like a slave. However, with the encouragement of Mr. William C. Coffin he does speak and soon gains a new sense of freedom and ease. What do these points say to the teacher?

18. Explain the comparison douglass makes in the Appendix of the slaveholding Christians of the South and the Pharisees and ancient scribes.
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