— Anonymous I think it is very powerful and clever for Harriet Jacobs to mention to readers that the book is narrative and not fiction. I think this text holds value to the community knowing that it is based on a true story. The story is more heartfelt especially since the book is written by […]
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One of the hardest works we read …
— Anonymous One of the hardest works we read in class has to be Incidents in the life of a slave girl written by Harriet Jacobs. In the autobiography Jacobs associates herself as Linda Brent, a slave girl whose only dream is to make it to the north and experience freedom. Jacobs’s work is great […]
While reading the essay we can see …
— Anonymous While reading the essay we can see that the family troubles and the relationship between Baldwin and his father as well as the challenges of racism in the American society during the 1940s. Usually, father and son relationship are close to each other but for Baldwin it was opposite. As his father was […]
The rough journey that Linda has …
— Anonymous The rough journey that Linda has gone through has been described in detail and gives the reader the exact feeling of how she must have felt. It is not only hard to put oneself in her shoe but also imagining her helplessness makes my heart shatter. Being a woman she has gone thought […]
When reading there isn’t much that …
— Anonymous When reading there isn’t much that will make me question the motives of a character when they decided to do something that I consider questionable. But when it comes to the short story “Adults Alone” by A. M. Homes the first time I read it I couldn’t help but question the reason why […]