The correct answer to this question is the second one “to state the writers opinion”
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A main even of Douglass autobiography is the whipping of Aunt Hester, he includes details about the bloody nature of the whipping. He refers to her ""heart rending shrieks as he whipped upon her naked back 'til she was literally covered with blood. No words, no tears, no prayers from his gory victim seemed to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose. The louder she screamed, the harder he whipped; and where the blood ran fastest, there he whipped longest. He would whip her to make her scream and whip her to make her hush. And not until overcome by fatigue would he cease to swing the blood clotted cow skin." The words he used made up a powerful image. The image was to stir up emotions of the reader and persuade them
