Rhetorical Analysis Of Learning To Read And Write By Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass Struggle Towards Education
In his piece "Learning to Read and Write," Frederick Douglass takes his audience on a personal journey through his struggle to attempt to receive an education as a young slave. As he describes such an significant yet troubling part of his life, the author emphasizes the issues slaves faced. He is able to express his difficulties growing up in an era of such hatred by the use of diction and irony as he strives towards education. Through the use of diction, Douglass expresses the cruel treatment faced as he grew up from not only others but himself. Early on the author describes his thankfulness that his mistress didn't treat him as a "brute" when he first moved in with her, immediately