My Observation Of Andy's Behavior

In the pre-Civil War plantations of the South, slaves were forbidden to read or write. In other words, they were forced to be ignorant and locked in mental darkness. In the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, he writes in dept about his life as a slave in these plantations. After leaning the ABC's and learning to spell words consisting of three or four letters from Ms. Auld, Frederick Douglass illustrates how he secretly taught himself how to read and write using various strategies such as: Learning the letters on the timber at Durgin and Bailey's ship yard, getting lessons from the white boy's he met on the street, Webster's Spelling Book, and master

“The boy went back to the corner where he had been studying and pulled out a thick book carefully covered in brown paper.” (pg 233)

1. Douglass taught himself how to read and write. At first, Douglass’s mistress taught him how to read the alphabet before her husband prohibited her from doing this. After that he started to teach himself how to read by reading books and newspapers, and how to write by copying his little Master Thomas’s written in the spaces left in the copy-book when his mistress goes to the class meeting every monday afternoon. However his most successfully way of teaching himself how to read was to make friends with the white boys whom he met in the street. He bribes them with food to get them to teach him. He also learned how to read and understand the meaning of the name on the timber.

2. How did Douglass learn his alphabet and how did he learn to read and write?

2. He'd hide his words away somewhere, folding them up and sliding them into a notebook of sorts. He doesn't always like asking for help, yet he still liked writing his feelings down. It held some sort of relief to him.

A, B) MSTT met with the caregiver to examine how she plans to increase the supervision and monitoring of the youth while out in public. Caregiver expressed while the youth is at home she is going to speak with her mother and his aunt to help while she's at work. MSTT encouraged caregiver to reach out to the school and ask them if they would be able to supervise and monitor him. Caregiver contacted the school and is waiting to hear a response. MSTT will continue to work with the caregiver in increasing the supervision

The process of Douglass's literacy did not occur overnight or without an ample amount of resolve. He had recently learned to read with the aid of his slaveholder's wife, and this inspired him to learn to write. He spent the better part of every spare moment in his seven-year bondage with the Aulds accomplishing this mission. He tells the reader that he would use old discarded writing books that belonged to his master's son in order to practice his letters (942). His position of poverty and ownership afforded him none of the advantages that were provided for white children in educational settings. Douglass had no slate, nor did he have paper, or pen and ink. His "copy-book was the board fence, brick wall, or

After learning a few letters he would challenge any boys to a writing contest. He would use any surface as his copy-book, such as board fence, brick wall, and pavement. Time passes and his master’s son went to grade school. Whenever left alone to care for the house, he writes in the master’s copybook until he is able to write similarly. It took many exhausting years; Douglass succeeds in learning how to write.

In the text entitled “Learning to Read and Write," the author, Frederick Douglass, explains various experiences in his life. These include experiences with his mistress, teaching himself how to read, learning about slavery, and teaching himself how to write. He does this to illustrate to readers that learning to read and write was important to Douglass’s understanding of slavery. First, the author develops his overarching claim that literacy was important to his mental progress by explaining the impact his mistress had on his education.

When it came to writing, Douglass was forced to take a much more difficult path to master the skill than Malcolm X. Douglass had to be sneaky and deceptive. Once he learned the letters “A”, “S”, “L”, and “F” in a shipyard he told any boy with the ability to write that he could write just as well (Douglass 105). By being strategically deceptive towards these other boys he was able to get writing lessons that otherwise he would have never received. With the gift of these basic lessons he would practice his handwriting in Master Thomas’s copy-book until he was able to proclaim, “Thus, after a long, tedious effort for years, I finally succeeded in learning how to write”

He was also had a very short temper with the interviewers and acted paranoid as if everybody was out to get him.

Abraham Lincoln learned to write by scrawling sentences in dirt and snow (Hunt107). Before entering politics, he worked as a store clerk, business owner, and flatboat guide to make a living, but he never stopped learning. While traveling on the flatboats, Lincoln read books by firelight until past midnight but still woke up early ready for a day of work (Hunt). Lincoln’s odd behavior never went by unnoticed. People commented that Lincoln “slaved over the text and mastered it” (Hunt109).

Being in the shipyard frequently, he watched all the carpenters write letters on the wood to indicate which side of the boat they go to. However, there was only four letters that he learned there while the rest was taught to him by a boy he knew could write. He and Douglass would make it a competition to write the letters better than the other. This gave Douglass practice to improve on writing legibly. When he needed him no more, Douglass would copy his master’s copybook to keep up on the skill. “I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one.” (Douglass 87). Douglass did not settle for being like every other slave knowing only a few words, he wanted to be the leader and show that with some simple education, slaves could overcome their

since they are the parents they always know what's best. This was at least what

In my opinion, I think Andy’s mom was not a good person, even though in the story she was a caring cheerful person, the main moral story was ”do not judge a book by its cover”. Firstly she is not a good role model for her children, would she have been more polite and accepting neighbor her children may have followed her behavior and also had respected the neighbor. This would have stopped this incident “...I dropped the cake of soap into the tub of fish (Flack 10).Secondly, she should have stepped in sooner on behalf of the Duvitches because she is there neighbor and I think a duty of a good neighbor is to take care and support them when they're in need or want help.She could have easily shown some respect to them and become a better neighbor