Anna Schovanec's Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl

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The story Incidents in the Life of a Slave girl is about keeping a family together and it’s about achieving personal freedom, also keeping families happy and to abolish slavery. The setting of this story takes place in Edenton, North Carolina, in the eighteen hundreds. In this time period slavery was huge, every plantation owner had slaves. This story is about a woman who wants to escape from the troubles that every slave goes through, it is also about corruption and rape. The main characters Linda and Aunt Martha are trying to have a good family bond but because of the corruptions that are going on it is hard to have a family bond.
Linda Brent (Harriet Jacobs) is a very smart woman, determined, and a courageous woman. Linda was born …show more content…

This means that Linda wants to escape from slavery, but because of Aunt Martha putting guilt trips on Linda, this hurts there relationship. Linda I believe resents her grandmother for this, but Aunt Martha believes that she is doing the right thing for her. Aunt Martha represents the role of mother and father figure by providing reinforcement to Linda. Because of Aunt Martha is a free woman she can provide many things to her granddaughter in times in need. Because of Linda and Aunt Martha complex relationship, Linda says, “Although my grandmother was all in all to me, I feared her as well loved her. I had been accustomed to look up at her with a respect bordering upon awe” (Jacobs 28-29). The fear that Linda has with Aunt Martha gives her trouble telling her about Dr. Flint advances which leads to a major conflict. “As a young slave girl of fifteen years, Linda if forced to choose between the virtues instilled by her much respected Grandmother and her need to assert herself sexually to avoid father enslavement” …show more content…

Linda and Aunt Martha had many disagreements especially when Aunt Martha guilt tripped Linda from leaving. Aunt Martha always thought that Linda would be in the same situation or worse. That’s one of the main reasons why Linda never escaped from slavery. Linda had two kids. “The relationship between grandmother and granddaughter suffers further strain because Linda continues her unforgivable relationship with Mr. Sands, resulting in the birth of two children”

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