from Jenna Payton via APS

From Fredderick Douglass chap #10 pg #110:

"He asked me what I wanted. I told him, to let me get a new home; that as sure as I lived with Mr. Covey again, I should live with but to die with him; that Covey would surely kill me; he was in a fair way for it. Master Thomas ridiculed the idea that there was any danger of Mr. Covey; that he was a good man, and that he could not think of taking me from him; that, should he do so, he would lose the whole year's wages; that I belonged to Mr. Covey for one year, and that I must go back to him, come what might; and that I must not trouble him with any more stories, or that he would himself get hold of me."

Example of "chiasmus" because it shows Douglass' personal crossing of making a change while dealing with his enslavement. Even though Douglass is still a slave, his living and safety conditions have been questioned.
See you tomorrow!

from Jessica Stewart via APS

- How weather played a part in a memory that you have. Memory and weather linked? 9/16
- 9/18 Prompt: Most traumatic experience, and how it shaped you. The most traumatic experience of my life has been the death of my mother. The things that I saw and encountered were very eye-opening. This has made me take on a different perspective on life than I had before. There were a lot of things that I saw that made me realize that we are human and that we do not live forever

Chiasmus

"He spoke but to command, and commanded but to be obeyed; he dealt sparingly with his words, and bountifully with his whip, never using the former where the latter would answer as well."

This chiasmus was on Page 66.

Chiasmus Fun!

I tried so hard--but I failed at finding one in the second half of the text!
Here is my chiasmus from page 66 "To be accused was to be convicted, and to be convicted was to be punished; the one always following the other with immutable certainty."

Douglass Memoir

"...I was, however, somewhat indebted to the society of my fellow slaves. They were noble souls; they not only possessed loving hearts, but brave ones. We were linked and interlinked with each other. I loved them with a love stronger than any thing I have experienced since." pg. 121 Ch. 10

Examples of Chiasmus

"They were frequently whipped when least deserving, and escaped whipping when most deserving it." (Page 60, Chapter III)

"He was just the man for such a place, and it was just the place for such a man." (Page 65, Chapter IV)

This passage is describing Mr. Gore, a new overseer, who "was artful, cruel, and obdurate." (Page 65)

Chiasmus in "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass"

"He recieved all the benefits of slaveholding without its evils; while I endured all the evils of a slave..."

This is on page 109 in my book... which is different from everyone else's... so, it's in Chapter XI in the fourth paragraph (which is very long - this quote is sort of near the beginning). Douglass is discussing how his owner took Douglass's wages but did so in a way that he believed was not doing anything wrong; so, the owner did not feel guilt for taking the money Douglass earned on his own.

Favorite Word

My favorite word is Pulchritudinous! It means beautiful and it comes from the latin word "pulcher" which also means beautiful. I love this word because pulchritundious certainly does not sound like something beautiful. I also think I love this word because it is one of the few words I remember from 5 years of latin.... Its a nice word...

My favorite word....Prompt from Thursday, Sept. 18

I'm a fan of words. There are a number of gems which I am particularly fond of, among them: glorious, defenestrate, and lolli pop.

My "favorite" word probably changes on a pretty frequent basis, but right now, I am in love with the word "uisce," which is the Irish word for "water." It's pronounced "ish-ka" and I get great joy out of saying it, and even just knowing what it means. It's on all the water lines and drains and bottles in Ireland, and once I learned the meaning of it in my Irish Language class I felt the need to say it out loud every time I saw it written. Perhaps just to prove I could pronounce it and knew what it meant, but I still find joy out of saying UISCE every time I need a drink or a shower.

A Valuable Website!

Check this out: Museum of the African Diaspora (www.moadsf.org).

Thinking about slave narratives

Here's a word from bell hooks' Feminist Theory: From the Margins to the Center that seems pertinent to our study of Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (and written by hooks about 100 years later: "Living as we did - on the edge - we developed a particular way of seeing reality. We looked both from the outside in and from the inside out. We focused our attention on the center as well as the margin. We understood both."

Pertinent?

finally got into the tentative.

Prompt: Think of a memory which you wish you could forget. Write about why you don't want to remember this, or what you dislike about the memory.