Fredrick Douglass

When I started reading this piece I thought that it was just going to be another english piece that I wouldn't really enjoy. As I kept reading I really started to get interested in it. I never knew how bad it was for slaves. It's like no matter what they do they will end up getting whipped. And just the things they aren't allowed to do. Their masters forbid them to learn to read or write. Both of those things have been important to me. I love reading and with writing I tend to sit down and write when I'm upset about somethings. I could not even imagine a life where I could neither read nor write.
In class we were also talking about what if Fredrick Douglass did not actually write this but instead just someone making it up. I don't know how interested I would have been if this wasn't actually true. I mean I was very interested in what I was reading because it was something that I was just learning about. It was an experience that someone had actually gone through and not just something that someone made up.