-Douglas uses metaphors because they were symbolic to his life experience.
-The effect is the irony of these statements to raise awareness of what he is saying.
-He tries to explain the experience of living a life, the difficulties etc..
-Douglas uses metaphors because they were symbolic to his life experience.
-The effect is the irony of these statements to raise awareness of what he is saying.
-He tries to explain the experience of living a life, the difficulties, etc.
"I have been frequently asked how I felt when I found myself in a free state. I have never been able to answer the question with any satisfaction to myself." as said in the passage. there are a few other sentences that could.In the case of this text, we have several of those metaphors, or symbolic words and sentences that underline what Frederick Douglass wants to convey through his text. "..I felt as one may imagine the unarmed mariner to feel when he is rescued by a friendly-man-of-war from the pursuit of a pirate", "I said I felt like one who had escaped a den of hungry lions.", "There I was in the midst of thousands, and yet a perfect stranger...", "Children of a common Father", "Money-loving kidnappers whose business it was to lie in wait for the panting fugitive", "As the ferocious bests of the forest lie in wait for their pray."Douglass uses a lot of metaphorical sentences simply to increase the sensation of readers that this man was really facing a very difficult time, that his struggles to manage to make people understand the importance of slavery abolition had been extreme, so extreme that they made him feel as "an unarmed mariner". These metaphors press on the reader the urgency, and also the desperation felt by Douglass, the terrible hardships he had to face even though he was no longer a slave himself. It also presses forward the concept of people´s insensibility towards the needs and sufferings of others: "There I was in the midst of thousands, and yet a perfect stranger; without home and without friends, in the midst of thousands of my own brethren..."
