W Jacobs Legacy

Luck. If anyone had luck, it was Olaudah Equiano. Olaudah lived through slavery, shipwrecks, and still wound up being a free educated author. He wrote a book that was the first of its kind and affected many people in many ways. He used his life and mishaps to influence and help people. There are many things to know about Olaudah: early life, travel,and the making of his legacy.

A comparison of the narrative of Douglass and the narrative of Jacobs was very interesting to me because, they vividly establishes the full range of burdens and conditions many slaves experience. I couldn’t help when I read the first half of these narratives to notice the similarities they both share and make the connection between them, as I relived their experiences through the lenses of a mixed male and a black female slaves with a white lover; that was also raped by her white master. Mr. Douglass was born in Talbot County, Maryland, and he expresses is frustration for not knowing or not being allow to know his age. The show this when he stated in his narrative by saying; “A want of information concerning my own was a source of unhappiness to me even doing childhood. The white children could tell their ages. I could not tell why I ought to be deprived on the same privilege.”(pg. 17) Douglass explain this is the fate of many slave of this time, they were not told or had any ideas of where and when they were born.

Jacobs was a young female and she was unfortunately born into slavery in 1813. Jacobs had a relatively normal life until she was six years of age and her mother

February 11, 1813 in Edenton, North Carolina Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery. Harriet Jacobs’s parents were Elijah and Delilah Jacobs mother and father of Harriet and her older brother John Jacob’s. Elijah Jacob’s was a skilled carpenter, who made enough money so that his family could all live together. Harriet Jacob’s grandmother Molly Horniblow played a major role in the Jacob’s family life. At the age six Harriet Jacob’s mother passed away Harriet was sent away to live with her mother’s owner and his mistress. “I was born a slave; but I never knew till six years of happy childhood had passed away.” Harriet felt as if she was living a good life until her mother passed away. Even though she was born a slave she did not feel

After her first mistress died, Jacobs was put on the auction block for sale as a farm tool. A man named Dr. Flint purchased her and her brother. Jacobs depicted a gruesome scene of the auction block: "These God-breathing machines are no more…than the cotton they plant, or the horses they tend." (Jacobs, p.11) Jacobs' real father was such a skilled craftsmen that he had more feelings of a freed slave than most others, and in the raising of his children, this thought pattern reflected especially William. This proved to make things rougher for both Jacobs and her brother William with their new master. Jacobs

Harriet Jacobs began her story by discussing her early life to her teens. Jacob’s life was peaceful until the death of her mother. She was first sent to her mother’s mistress who was nice to her. Later Jacobs was sent to Dr.Flint where she found out the cruelties of the society and what it means to be a slave. Dr. Flint, her new master was a cruel and callous man. He often try to get Jacobs to sleep with him. He told Jacobs “ I was made for his use, made to obey his command in every thing; that I was nothing but a slave,

While movies and books provide society with examples of heroes rising from nothing, Malcolm Gladwell argues that heroes in the real world are successful because of their circumstances, their families, and their appetite for hard work, and through an analysis of his book Outliers and various other sources, it is made clear that this is correct. Gladwell starts his book by introducing how an individual’s appetite for hard work is influential to their success. In an article for the New Yorkers, Gladwell states that “the psychologist John Hayes looked at seventy-six famous classical composers and found that, in almost every case, those composers did not create their greatest work until they had been composing for at least ten years” (Gladwell). In his book, Gladwell explains that ten years of hard practice equals about 10,000

In Malcolm Gladwell's national bestseller "Outliers", Gladwell makes many intriguing assertions, one of them being "If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your imagination, you can shape the world to your desires." This statement is indeed authentic. When one is privileged with extraordinary talent and yet incorporates time and effort to improve it, that person is destined to succeed.

The distinct introduction to each of their lives not only set an impression for the reader but also serves as a precursor to the different aspirations and dreams of escape that Jacobs and Douglas distinctly had. Beginning with Jacobs her narrative was written around her scarce time when she was not tending to “household duties” and avoiding the “unclean images” her master regularly imposed on her. Jacobs did not have informal education as frequent as Douglass and

While the author, Malcolm Gladwell, does not dispute that hard work in a necessary component, we learn that many factors, lucky breaks, and some coincidences all occur in making high achievers into true outliers. We also learn that many of the richest, most famous, and most successful people in

When describing how they overcame the struggles of forced ignorance, Douglass and Jacobs approaches have strikingly similar methods. When reflecting on his childhood learning process, Douglass wrote, “A want of information concerning my own was a source of unhappiness to me even during childhood” (Douglass 337). Douglass writes how he

Samuel Langhore Clemons had very unique experiences starting early in life. His childhood was not the easiest; he was not properly educated and death surrounded him. He also had to begin working at age twelve. This would all carve out his path to becoming one of the best writers of his generation.

There are many authors, poetry writers, and novelists around this world, but what make them into a famous author or writer? One of the famous American writer was John Steinbeck. He earned a Nobel prize of literature from his American classic novels that he had written in the past. The Nobel prize was not the only award that he had earned for his literature, he earned different awards for his writings also (John Stein..). John Steinbeck is a man who had overcome different obstacles and being successful in life.

Jacobs ' short sexual orientation change through cross-dressing, trailed by her long "withdraw" into aggregate physical disguise, is telling confirmation of how contrastingly a subjugated man and an oppressed woman reacted to the difficulties of their lives as slaves and additionally autobiographers.

Authors have inspired and created some of the most remarkable ideas that can change just one life or many; however, these authors must have had inspiration themselves. An author’s life influences who they are and what they do, writing. Edgar Allan Poe was a unique author who wrote numerous dark, mysterious works, such as “The Tell Tale Heart,” that were inspired by his life full of sorrow and despair. Comparable to Poe, S.E. Hinton’s writing was affected by her life of being different from the world and even her friends, which led to her writing about a unique character who stands out in The Outsiders. Lastly, Elie Wiesel is alike to the previous authors. His life, burdened by ceaseless pain that he bore through, reflects in his writing in Night. Anybody’s life can change from just one significant moment that they have lived, no matter who they are or what they do. Edgar Allan Poe, S.E. Hinton, and Elie Wiesel had been just average people who have challenged events in their lives which who used those events to write.