Texas EOC English 2: 4.1 Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts

All right why is the author reluctant to give all

of the details about his escape from slavery and hear

the potential answers pretty logical that you won't hide that

so others could follow behind him getting caught but let's

go yeah douglas holds back on the details of his

escape plan because option b is very very wrong Frederick

definitely didn't think that other slaves should say to escaping

slavery and we're pretty sure he thinks they oughta put

it at the top of their to do lists if

possible Joys d is way off the mark too In

general douglas isn't worried about creating a sense of mystery

this's a slave narrative not a james patterson novel we

can see how somebody might be fooled by a douglas

does disapprove of the way the underground railroad makes its

escape methods public however he doesn't actually disprove of the

underground railroad itself he applauds it we'll see is the

right answer Douglas basically says that giving details about his

escape would be like giving slave owners a how to

manual for preventing slaves from escaping let's all be glad

that these days such a book would not topped the 00:01:29.982 --> [endTime] best seller list Who