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American Literature (Slave Narrative (Hypocrisy (Fredrick Douglass “What…

- - - - "The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity, and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth [of] July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn"
        
        Being asked to speak on independence and freedom was something Douglass was not fond of. He believed it was hypocritical to be asked to speak highly of American independence and what it stood for when so much of it was carried on the backs of his family and friends as slaves.
  - - - "But, O, ye happy women, whose purity has been sheltered from childhood, who have been free to choose the objects of your affection, whose homes are protected by law, do not judge the poor desolate slave girl too severely! If slavery had been abolished, I, also […] could have had a home shielded by laws; and I should have been spared the painful task of confessing what I am now about to relate. "
        
        Here, Jacobs explains how she could have had the same life as most women, free lives and being able to raise her children. However, She made a lot of sacrifices in order to survive. One of these being the most important roles of being a woman, that is, being a mother.
- - - - "There are things in that paper which nobody knows but me, or ever will. Behind that outside pattern, the dim shapes get clearer every day. It is always the same shape, only very numerous. And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern. I don’t like it a bit. I wonder—I begin to think—I wish John would take me away from here!"
        
        The narrator is stuck in an unhealthy marriage and a room that keeps her insane. Both parts keep the narrator unhealthy and mad.
    - - "The writer spoke of acute bodily illness--of a mental disorder which oppressed him."
        
        The Fall of the House of Usher focuses on not only the idea of isolation and fear but also the mental state of the narrator and Roderick which takes a toll on them, eventually leading to Roderick's death.
  - - - "Because I could not stop for Death - He kindly stopped for me - The Carriage held but just Ourselves"
        
        The narrator overcomes her fear of death by making death a "gentlemen". She is aware and accepting of the fact that she is dying.
- - - - "But I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. "
        
        Throughout this story, the reader sees how this individual begins to develop a sense of self and realize that they're colored. But, does not mean it in a negative way because she is proud of who she is and who she's become.
  - - - "But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong"
        
        Even when faced with outright Racism and prejudice the narrator remains strong and hopeful that he will see better days and when those days come he will laugh in the face of those who doubted him.
- - - - "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was no life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms,"
        
        For Thoreau, being alone in nature and away from society is crucial for a person's sense of self and to find meaning in life.
  - - - "Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.”
        
        Emerson believes that in order to be your true self and find meaning within yourself, you need to be completely yourself. You cannot have thoughts that were someone else's thoughts, you need to create your own. That is the true definition of identity and finding your self.
- - - - Notes On the State of Virginia
        
        "I advance it therefore [...] that the blacks [...] are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind.”
        
        The declaration of independence and Notes on the State of Virginia do not seem to be written by the same man. When he talks about freedom and prosperity in this piece, he does not include African Americans.
      - Declaration of independence
        
        "“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."
        
        Declaring independence and Freedom from Britain. Here the US lists their values as a nation. In the rest of the declaration, it has a formal and friendly tone.
    - - "Independence or death... let these sacred words unite us and be the signal of battle and of our reunion."
        
        Inspired by the US Declaration of Independence, Haiti declared its independence from France in a not so formal and friendly way. They used words of war: Death, blood, etc. Saying, they would rather die than be ruled by France any longer.
- - - - “Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?”
        
        The Narrator views life in constant anxiety and fear. He is worried about how his actions will be perceived by others more specifically, how women will react to him.
    - - "so much depends upon a red wheel barrow"
        
        This poem is unlike most poems, the red wheelbarrow is a metaphor for finding hidden meaning in things in our everyday life that may seem unimportant.
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        "It's really an awfully simple operation, Jig the man said. It's not really an operation at all. The girl looked at the ground the table legs rested on. I know you wouldn't mind it, Jig. It's really not anything. It's just to let the air in."
        
        The couple are disagreeing on an operation that it thought to be an abortion. This is the epitome of having different views in life. One does not believe they should get an abortion while the other does because of the freedom they would lose.
- - - - Here, for the first time, I touched the goose quill to the treaty - not knowing, however, that, by that act, I consented to give away my village. Had that been explained to me, I should have opposed it,
        and never would have signed their treaty, as my recent conduct will clearly prove
        
        By the act of signing for what he thought would bring him and his people peace, but instead took away all that they knew. It took away a way of life and their culture.
    - - "to save the people the homeland must be
        sacrificed"
        
        Had a different take than people like Blackhawk. He believed that the only way to survive was to sacrifice their land. This meant conforming to what was wanted of them and losing their culture and identity as a people.
    - - "We have never ceded nor forfeited the occupancy of the soil and the sovereignty over it, we do solemnly protest against being forced to leave it, either direct or by indirect measures. To the land of which we are now in possession we are attached—it is our fathers' gift—it contains their ashes—it is the land of our nativity, and the land of our intellectual birth.”
        
        Here the Cherokee are trying to preserve what is left of their culture and identity. Pleading with the US to let them keep their land and that was inherited to them by their fathers.
- - - - "It is a solemn sight to see so many Christians lying in their blood, some here, and some there, like a company of sheep torn by wolves, all of them stripped naked by a company of hell-hounds, roaring, singing, ranting, and insulting, as if they would have torn our very hearts out; yet the Lord by His almighty power preserved a number of us from death, for there were twenty-four of us taken alive and carried captive.”
        
        Mary, being able to see this, have everything take away from her including her family, kids, home, and life, and still be able to get through life shows great strength and bravery.
- - - - " She told me to tell you that she was never engaged...I don't know why she wanted you to know; but she said to me three times- 'Mind you tell Mr. Winterbourne'"
        
        Daisy Miller was seen as unsure and not ladylike, because of rumors and what others said about her. At her funeral the truth is told, she was always pure and innocent. Teaching everyone the lesson of not taking everything at face value.