— Anonymous The novel “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” by Harriet Jacobs represent her cruel experienced the evils American slavery. I cannot imagine how cruel slavery can be when I heard from others or seen movies after I read the book I am shocked because the author shows real-life experience in her […]
Victorian and the 19th Century (1840–1914CE)
Whenever she could seize a moment, she put her actuality into written words
— Anonymous At the beginning of the novel “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” the author Harriet Jacobs points out that Northerners have no knowledge of the slavery. Northerners think slavery as a ceaseless bondage with the Southerners. They have no ideas of the word slavery that entails with ceaseless humiliation. Linda Brent […]
She finds that things were not as she thought
— Ginna Lopez After all the obstacles Linda had to go through to get to the north, she finds that things were not as she thought. This is most likely what happens when you emigrate, thinking that you are going to solve your life but then you face another reality which is practically the same […]
The events seemed to be exaggerated or almost fictitious
— Onima Shah Although the book is more of a personal diary for Jacobs, I think that her story often reads as a novel because of the extremities of the events that she describes. While I was reading the book, I assumed it was a novel because the events that she was describing seemed to […]
She got the freedom, but it was not exactly what she was expecting
— Onima Shah Linda being hurt by Mrs. Hobbs words is an important scene, as she is free but still experiences the effects of slavery in the North, a place that should have been free. She got the freedom, but it was not exactly what she was expecting. Although Ellen was really not a slave […]
