Thursday, October 7, 2010
Chapters 5, 6, and 7
I liked these chapters because he got to go to Baltimore where they treated slaves better. I thought it was more happy than sad in these because he was happy and well treated instead of whipped and beaten. Then I got to the part where the mistress was teaching him how to read and write. I felt this part was mean because her husband comes in and yells at her because when the slaves learn to read and write they get educated and knowledge is power. He proves that slaves are people because his master in Baltimore said that slaves would become smarter than white people if they earned to read and write. In saying this he states that the slaves have the ability to learn and become smarter than their owners.
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Blake,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that these chapters were not as sad. I liked how you talked a lot about how he learned to read and write because that had a lot to do with the story!
Welll blakeee.... i really did enjoy reading this(: i think that you could have gotten a little more into the reading and added some more detail to this to help your writing. But anyway great job budddd(:
ReplyDeleteBlake, I have to agree with you on what you said. I really didn't like what the husband did to his wife by teling her that, it was wrong.
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