Small Girl. Big Dreams

 My metaphor I created is "You're a bell trapped inside a whistle". The metaphor gives a sense of big things come in small packages. Also, that bigger is BETTTER. I want to accomplish my goal of becoming the highest paid nurse, which is a certified registered nurse anesthetist. I love helping people I've been doing it since I was particularly out of diapers, it's in my nature. So I'm a little girl with a big dream, but who doesn't dream big ??

~Segana Kinye

Where I'm Trying To Go, What I'm Trying To Do

The metaphor is life's a box of chocolates. You never know what your gonna get. The metaphor gives good insight on how most should understand life. Living is unpredictable no one can fully control the problems and people that come into their lives. There can always be a goal or several goals in life but getting to them may be difficult or not go as planned.

-Jazlyn Verner

Douglass and the Teacher

• What idea about slavery is depicted through Fredrick's interaction with his mistress? How does he use rhetorical devices to convey that ideas? 

  "Nature made us friends; slavery made us enemies." Douglass and his mistress have an unusual relationship. Most slaveholders would treat their slave harsh and with no remorse.  Mrs. Auld however did not. She began educating the young slave, Fredrick Douglass. She taught him to read and have a love for it. Even after she ceased her teachings, Douglass still read.                    

"Poor lady! She did not know my trouble, and I dared not to tell her... Her abuse fell on me like the blows of a false prophet upon his ass; she did not know that an angel stood in the way; and -such is the relation of master and slave- I could not tell her."

  Douglass's interactions with his slaveholder's wife, Mrs. Auld, shows that there is not all hate in a relationship between a slave and a slave master. Douglass use of parallelism, imagery and allusions helps to depict the young man's life.

----- Jazlyn Verner

Douglass and his Mistress

• What idea about slavery is developed through Frederick's interaction with his mistress? How does he use rhetorical devices to convey this idea?

This generation grew up learning about the horrors of slavery while others, such as Frederick Douglass, had to lived through it. In Douglass's auto-biography, "My Bondage, My Freedom", he speaks of a specific time in which he was taught to read by the wife of his slave owner. Mrs. Auld, Master Hugh's wife, had grown to love Douglass just as she loved her own son. This proved to be a problem and eventually Mr. Auld forced his wife to stop teaching Douglass. This caused a rift in the relationship that Mrs. Auld and Douglass had been growing and at one point, Mrs. Auld was treating Douglass worse that Mr.Auld. In the text it states that “ I could talk and sing; I could laugh and weep; I could reason and remember; I could love and hate.” This explains that Mrs. Auld treats Douglass as a human being until she is taught otherwise by her husband. She, as a white slaveholder, and he, as a slave, are parallel in their humanity.

Eventually, Douglass realized that the only way to break the chains of slavery would be to continue learning to read. Knowledge had finally set him free and he would do anything to keep that sense of freedom. 

What is happening here?

The idea that is developed throughout the autobiography about slavery is that without Mrs. Auld, Douglass would have been a regular slave and possible would not be who he is today. Back then, slaves were not allowed to know or to be taught anything and if they were them and the person responsible for teaching would been punished. 

Oh Really Now?

• What idea about slavery is developed through Fredrick's interaction with his mistress? How does he use rhetorical devices to convey that idea?

In Fredrick Douglass's, "My Bondage and My Freedom," Douglass talks about his Mistress's attempt to educate him as a young boy. She had started off with benevolent intentions; however, as time went on and malevolent opinions had been received from her husband, her teaching came to abrupt halt. It was believed her reasoning for this was slaves were not supposed to obtain knowledge or in other words, "education and slavery are incompatible with each other."

Obviously His mistress was wrong about that ignorant statement because look at us now, doing all the things slaveholders said we couldn't, but that is beside the point. Lets take a moment to observe this statement:

"Nature had made us friends; slavery made us enemies."

 Apart from the evident parallelism, there is something bigger. Douglass wanted us to see that slavery is not natural, it is man made. 

~Larenzle  Coleman