Texas EOC English 2: 4.5 Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts
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| Literary | Nonfiction |
| Texas EOC English II | Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts |
| Texas EOC II | Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts |
Transcript
the room All right Narrative of the life of frederick
douglass This guy could write Okay We're skim and even
greater sissy nation that never proved their public manner Can't
manning All right read the following excerpt from the basses
right here we owe something to the slave south of
the line as well as to those north of it
And in aiding the latter on their way to freedom
We should be careful to do nothing which would be
likely to hinder the former from escaping from slavery All
right From the excerpt above the reader can infer that
the author what And here the potential answers He is
really good Right Okay All right Well let's Zoom in
on the excerpt and see what the author has to
say Well choice They must have read a different excerpt
Douglas doesn't say anything about enslaved slaves being more important
Than escaped slaves be wasn't paying attention either Douglas also
isn't saying that the escape from slavery itself hurts people
who are still enslaved and finally see doesn't get it
right because douglas never says that former slave should remember
those still stuck in slavery Okay that sounded bad he's
not suggesting they should say what abs to them Either
way we'll find out what he's saying an answer D
which is the correct one The thesis of this particular
passage is in the final sentence How convenient douglas says
that the efforts tto help escaping slaves shouldn't hinder impede
pulled back prevent the efforts of other slaves to escape
Got that Because seriously can't we almost always file impeding
slaves escaping under worse things to possibly do in humanity 00:01:58.624 --> [endTime] Yeah