Creating a Text Trailer — Cumulative exam

Question 37 • Language Arts 8 - ELA3008 IC

Which excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass best reveals Douglass’s purpose to inform readers about the terrible conditions which he endured?

Answer

Thus, after a long, tedious effort for years, I finally succeeded in learning how to write.

Thanks to a kind Providence, I fell to the portion of Mrs. Lucretia, and was sent immediately back to Baltimore, to live again in the family of Master Hugh.

I took passage with Captain Rowe, in the schooner Wild Cat, and, after a sail of about twenty-four hours, I found myself near the place of my birth.

I was immediately sent for, to be valued with the other property. Here again my feelings rose up in detestation of slavery.

Explanation

Douglass’s purpose is to inform readers about the terrible conditions he endured under slavery. Being sent to be “valued with the other property” shows that enslaved people were treated as possessions rather than human beings, and his reaction conveys the cruelty of that experience. The other excerpts focus on learning to write, returning to Baltimore, or traveling to his birthplace.

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