— 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 works indeed; she takes on a psychological rollercoaster and brings the reader closer to her. She introduces the reader to Linda and her family, one of many slave families working for their master. To early beginnings to later a young woman who has rage and hate for white men in the south as she had an obsessive master who tried to put fear in heart. Her autobiography is important because her work speaks to former slaves and the African American community. We think we live in a world where a time have changed but we are currently in year 2020 and it seems to be no improvements and cycle that keeps repeating itself. Jacobs went through so many abuses from her master she ran away, technically hid in a small attic and went through all the seasons. I can’t imagine the pain she went through to see her kids everyday and not being able to hug or talk to them, every time she felt she was getting closer to her goal a setback always occurred. However Linda was a brave woman, all the setbacks that happen was just and obstacle he had to face to reach freedom. It speaks to many lower class individuals who are faced with obstacles just because of their skin color, although things have changed and freedom now is interpreted differently hate and racism still exist. I tried the audio books but I was not a big fan so I tried a new strategy where I used the audio book and the text itself and follow it. At times I get distracted but this strategy got me focused and all my attention was towards the text
