In both the Dangerous passage to New Life and the Underground Railroad are both similar because they both take many dangerous risks for their number one priority, freedom. The passage and biography share both similarities but convey different themes and evidence as well. For instance, in the Dangerous Passage to New Life the narrator clarifies that he “always dreamed about living in the United States... (#1 paragraph).” This is similar to the Underground Railroad because Harriet Tubman “had never been to Canada (502).” But still took many risks to keep about three hundred slaves safe and make it to their promise land without getting caught. This also compares to the narrator in the passage because he was almost at the urge of dying from a fire. It was all a priority for them because their goal was to make it to freedom and “be someone in life (#9 paragraph in Dangerous Passage to New Life).” Harriet Tubman and the narrator both persevere a plan to escape there harsh …show more content…
environment. Since Harriet Tubman was the conductor of the UGRR, she took the slaves on Saturday because all the hunters and master will be at church, and the printers would not work until Monday. So, Harriet would have a nonchalant way to take the slaves. The narrator only plan, were to escape with his partner that day but also came up to a stage that could have kill them. Both of their plans occurs as dangerous because just imagine the fact of dying for your freedom. On the other hand, the passage and biography both have many differences.
One of the difference is that the narrator in Dangerous Passage to New Life escape was very quick from the long trip the escape slaves took. The narrator states “We were lucky enough to move out of the way. We then safely make it to the United States (#7 paragraph).” The narrator suffer many hardships to make it across the border but made it safely to his freedom destination. However, if you look over to the slaves they had a longer journey to the north. In the Underground Railroad, Ann Petry explains that “eleven runaways would be whipped and sold South, but she- she would be hanged.” So, many of the slaves of the UGRR suffer the hard slams of doors in their face, the brutal weather, no food, no water, and the worry of getting caught by anyone during it. They had it to be very careful, if they would start a small fire for warmth they could have been caught by hunters in minutes or even get caught by someone steeping on a
stick. Eventually, both of the stories conducts a Mexican immigrant and African-Americans slaves making it through many hardships to make it to their goal of freedom. The narrator conquer his dreams of living in the United States and Harriet Tubman and the slaves that follow her to the end, made it to freedom as well.
Harriet, Frederick, and Olaudah were all slaves sharing their stories and experiences in their lives as slaves. All of their stories were similar as they spoke of the cruelty, brutality and utter inhumaneness of the overseers and masters that enslaved them. The most common threads and similarity to their stories is that they fought for themselves and for others to escape the horrors of this immoral institution called slavery. They all realized the importance of education in determining their destiny and the destiny of all people under the grasps of oppression. Their participation in the antislavery movement helped to fuel the sentimentality that supported the abolishment of slavery all over the world.
Harriet Jacob along with Sojourner Truth were both runaway slaves. These two women had experienced two different types of southern slavery. Harriet who had never experienced that of what Sojourner had, she
The similarities are prolific in their presence in certain parts of the novel, the very context of both stories shows similarities, both are dealing with an oppressed factor that is set free by an outsider who teaches and challenges the system in which the oppressed are caught.
“ I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.”~Harriet Tubman. Harriet Tubman sacrificed her life and freedom as well. She organized the Underground Railroad, and freed hundreds of slaves. As if the journey wasn’t difficult enough,stated by the book, Who Was Harriet Tubman, “But the trip was even more dangerous after 1850. That was because the Fugitive Slave Law had been passed.”(pg.56) The Fugitive Slave Law meant that runaway slaves who made it to the free states had to be sent back to their masters. People were allowed to beat the slaves and sell them back into the South too. Even though the situation was tough, Harriet Tubman never gave up on what she thought was
In Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad, we see a piece of history being slightly rewritten. Whitehead was able to give the reader a visual of how mentally and physically the slaves were affected. We are given a glimpse of what they call freedom and the reality of freedom in the 1800s through eyes of the protagonist Cora.
...er what escaped slaves followed through the Underground Railroad. As well with the famous fictional book of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. In Uncle Tom’s cabin Stowe talks about the life of slaves in the plantation. Douglass also publishes an autobiography talking about the horrid life of a slave and how honored he was to had been able to learn how to read and write. All this propaganda caused commotion within the union and the confederates leading up to the war.
The Underground Railroad was an extremely complex organization whose mission was to free slaves from southern states in the mid-19th century. It was a collaborative organization comprised of white homeowners, freed blacks, captive slaves, or anyone else who would help. This vast network was fragile because it was entirely dependent on the absolute discretion of everyone involved. A slave was the legal property of his owner, so attempting escape or aiding a fugitive slave was illegal and dangerous, for both the slave and the abolitionist. In The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass understands that he can only reveal so many details about his escape from servitude, saying, “I deeply regret the necessity that impels
The Underground Railroad was large group of people who secretly worked together to help slaves escape slavery in the south. Despite the name, the Underground Railroad had nothing to do with actual railroads and was not located underground (www.freedomcenter.org). The Underground Railroad helped move hundreds of slaves to the north each year. It’s estimated that the south lost 100,000 slaves during 1810-1850 (www.pbs.org).
...oncluding passage to his narrative for a specific purpose: to create a more profound connection with his audience on the basis of his experiences and thoughts. He creates a vision of relief in the beginning of the passage by means of diction, similes, and an impeccable amount of imagery. Douglass also applies an approach for the application of syntax, diction, and connotative sense to amplify the feelings of loneliness and paranoia presented after emancipation. The result is the masterpiece that fluently runs from one state of mind following his escape to another. It is a masterpiece with a timeless sense of moral values being unconsciously taught to its audience, whether or not they succeed in deciphering it.
numerous types of themes. Much of the work concentrates on the underlining ideas beneath the stories. In the narratives, fugitives and ex-slaves appealed to the humanity they shared with their readers during these times, men being lynched and marked all over and women being the subject of grueling rapes. "The slave narrative of Frederick Douglas" and "Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" themes come from the existence of the slaves morality that they are forced compromise to live. Both narrators show slave narratives in the point of view of both "men and women slaves that had to deal with physical, mental, and moral abuse during the times of slavery." (Lee 44)
She also feels that Harriet Tubman is a prime example of a strong African American woman. In this biography, author, Catherine Clinton gives an accurate take regarding the conditions for slaves in Eastern Shore, Maryland. Her description of the conditions empower readers to construe how Harriet Tubman more than likely lived in her early years. This is a fascinating, elegantly composed early account that will equip readers with a realistic insight around the life of an African American saint. There are many good points throughout this biography. The authors’ point about Harriet Tubman being brave is confirmed by evidence in which she detailed. Case in point, voyaging on numerous occasions from the South toward the North by way of the Underground Railroad was considered exceptionally strong evidence of bravery. This biography furthered confirmed my positive view of Harriet Tubman. It also provided me with new insight of the struggles that Harriet Tubman encountered. For instance, I was able to learn that her original name was Arminata Ross and she was forced to change her name to Harriet in order to maintain a false
Both Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad and The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales are similar in many ways, yet they are also different from each other. One thing that both texts have in common are that they are both about slaves escaping to freedom. Another thing both texts do very well is portray the fear and misery the people face.The texts also give examples of what holds the slaves from escaping, such as the sounds of the furious hoofbeats, which freeze the slaves, regardless of what they are doing. The thing that scares the slaves in Virginia Hamilton’s story is the whip, which is able to force the slaves to move quicker. The things that are different about the two texts are that most importantly, the Harriet
The novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North, written by Richard Flanagan, and the film The Railway Man, directed by Johnathan Teplitzky, portray the lives of POWs during and after World War II. Through the influence of first-hand experiences, both Flanagan and Teplitzky describe or visually represent the stories told to them of the POW camps. The protagonists of both the novel and the film are subject to their own memories, which take control of the small things in their lives. Where the female protagonists in both the novel and the film are subject to their gender are females and are under the control of the men around them. Through their contemporary lens, both Flanagan and Teplitzky present characters who are not in control of their own
The Underground Railroad despite occurring centuries ago continues to be an “enduring and popular thread in the fabric of America’s national historical memory” as Bright puts it. Throughout history, thousands of slaves managed to escape the clutches of slavery by using a system meant to liberate. In Colson Whitehead’s novel, The Underground Railroad, he manages to blend slave narrative and history creating a book that goes beyond literary or historical fiction. Whitehead based his book off a question, “what if the Underground Railroad was a real railroad?” The story follows two runaway slaves, Cora and Caesar, who are pursued by the relentless slave catcher Ridgeway. Their journey on the railroad takes them to new and unfamiliar locations,
In both the novel - The Narrow Road to the Deep North, and the film - The Railway Man, the compositional feature of intertextuality is used in the scenes regarding the beating of Darky Gardiner, and the beating of Eric Lomax. During the description of Darky Gardiner’s beating, Flanagan writes, “Blow after blow – on the monster’s face, a monster’s mask” (297). This quote is derived from one of Basho’s poems, The Monkey’s Mask; “Year after year – on the monkey’s face, a monkey’s mask” (Ueda, 351). The POWs see the Goanna as a monster, which they know will punish them if they step out of line, but in truth, they actually see a monster’s mask, which the Goanna has put on. The Goanna may not actually be a monster, but he knows that he has to wear