Compare And Contrast Mark Twain And Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass and Mark Twain very similar but they were also very different. Douglass and Twain both wrote stories during their lifetime. When they wrote their stories they would write about their past lives and their personal lives a well. They both grew up with brothers and sister but they were also had some differences in their lives. When Frederick Douglass would write he had to make the audience believe that his story was true. The reason why people didn’t believe him was because he was a former slave and they thought that he was just making this story up. So he had to be objective when writing his stories so that they would believe that he was telling the truth. He had Two sisters and one brother growing up but since he was born

into slavery he could not spend time with them because his brother and sisters were also born into slavery. Douglass form of style was to state facts is his story. Mark Twain growing up had four brothers and two sisters they all lived together in a little house so they would be spending time with each other. In his stories he would be subjective. Twain often used dialect in his story. Fredrick Douglass and Mark Twain were very well known in the late 18th century. They both had a major impact on writers and authors today. Fredrick was a former slave and eminent human rights leader in the abolition movement. Mark Twain wrote the classic American novels The Adventure of Tom Sawyer and the Adventure of Huckleberry Finn. If it wasn’t for what these men went through writing today would be so much different.