In Frederick Douglasss Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Es

In Frederick Douglasss memorial of the Life of Frederick Douglass,he appeals to the interest of the reader through his first throwaccounts of striverry, his use of irony in these descriptions, and hisbalance between indirectness and honesty.Douglasss descriptions of the harshness of slave carriage are filled withhorrific details able to do even the coldest hearts. The beginningof the book describes how Douglass lacks even the simplest endureledgeof his own age. He goes on in the book to describe how he has no undefiled knowledge of his age, because he has never seen any of theauthentic records containing it. By removed the larger part of the slaves,know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it isprobably the wish of most masters to keep their slaves with only alimited amount of knowledge.In saying this Douglass is showing how low the life of a slave iscompared to other humans. The idea of slaves being seen as and workanimals is placed into our minds and is set for an idea to shape thelife of Frederick Douglass.Douglass in any case gives acco...