Question

How does the autobiographical and narrative form influence the meaning and tone Jacobs conveys in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl?

Answer 1

The tone in the life of Slave Girl influence the readers to be able to empathize to the character of the story.  Like how much hardship she had to endure, the limitation of the choice that she had because of the cruelness of the master, even how she feels that she wouldn't be able to love a decent man because she can't stand the thought of him seeing her suffering

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Answer 2

The autobiographical and narrative form of the novel Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl helps readers to identify with the cruelties and horrors of slavery. Jacobs uses the autobiographical form to connect directly to the reader and make readers sympathetic toward her plight as a slave. The narrative form enhances the writer’s attempt at describing the horrors of slavery and paints a vivid image of the events and people that Jacobs faced during her time as a slave.