Learning to Read and Write.

 


How Efective Learning To Read And Write Can Be

 

  In the informative article “Learning to Read and Write” (2013) Frederick Douglass explains how necessary it is to articulate yourself.Douglass does this by shedding light on his adolescence and leading him to begin to read and write.The purpose of doing this was to educate people in order to show how cruel slavery actually was and express the intelligence of  black people as a whole.The audiences Douglass wrote to were African American people who experienced similar tramas to show them there was change coming.                      

I feel that since Douglass was a slave that couldn't read or write when he was learning by a white person it was frown upon because he is a "Nigger" and a slave.  He tricked a white boy into teaching him how to read and white, that showed his burning desire to learn. He knew that learning to read and write was one of the keys to freedom and knowing how to learn was one of the keys to self-determination or taking your destiny into your own hands. This is why it's so important with Frederick Douglass being one of our ancestors or someone that we as black people identify with, that's a lesson for us. We kind of take his life story and history very personally because it shows the struggle that black people had to go through to even think about equality.      

Douglass shows the importance of reading and writing as a black man, and even being a free educated black man as he says in lines 38-40 “Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.” Douglass was aware at an early age that education was the only way to freedom, he articulated the challenges endured and to ensure education was a priority. Understanding that slave owners feeling towards education was “If you teach a nigger how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave…” this led Frederick Douglass to be ignited by those words, which continue his passion for learning.      

              

 

Douglass, Frederick  “Learning to Read and Write” Narrative of the Life of Frederick          

Douglass, an American Slave, Chapters 6-8. 2013 pp. 2-9

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