"my escape from slavery"
by frederick douglass

my free life began on the third of september, 1838. on the morning of the fourth of that month, after an anxious and most perilous but safe journey, i found myself in the big city of new york, a free man—one more added to the mighty throng which, like the confused waves of the troubled sea, surged to and fro between the lofty walls of broadway. though dazzled with the wonders which met me on every hand, my thoughts could not be much withdrawn from my strange situation. for the moment, the dreams of my youth and the hopes of my manhood were completely fulfilled. the bonds that had held me to "old master" were broken. no man now had a right to call me his slave or assert mastery over me. i was in the rough and tumble of an outdoor world, to take my chance with the rest of its busy number.

i have often been asked how i felt when first i found myself on free soil. there is scarcely anything in my experience about which i could not give a more satisfactory answer. a new world had opened upon me. if life is more than breath and the "quick round of blood," i lived more in that one day than in a year of my slave life. it was a time of joyous excitement which words can but tamely describe. in a letter written to a friend soon after reaching new york, i said: "i felt as one might feel upon escape from a den of hungry lions." anguish and grief, like darkness and rain, may be depicted; but gladness and joy, like the rainbow, defy the skill of pen or pencil. during ten or fifteen years i had been, as it were, dragging a heavy chain which no strength of mine could break; i was not only a slave, but a slave for life. i might become a husband, a father, an aged man, but through all, from birth to death, from the cradle to the grave, i had felt myself doomed. all efforts i had previously made to secure my freedom had not only failed, but had seemed only to rivet my fetters (fasten my chains) the more firmly, and to render my escape more difficult. baffled, entangled, and discouraged, i had at times asked myself the question, "may not my condition after all be god's work, and ordered for a wise purpose, and if so, is not submission my duty? " a contest had in fact been going on in my mind for a long time, between the clear consciousness of right and the plausible (reasonable) make-shifts of theology and superstition. the one held me an abject (hopeless) slave—a prisoner for life, punished for some transgression in which i had no lot nor part; and the other counseled me to manly endeavor to secure my freedom. this contest was now ended; my chains were broken, and the victory brought me unspeakable joy.

when you answer the question, be sure to answer it in the following format (ape):

a: answer the question directly

p: prove your answer with a quote from the passage

e: explain how the proof (quotes) support your answer

how does the historical setting of the work affect the main character's actions and emotions?

the choice that is not a technique that you should use to come up with ideas for the topic of a research project is, writing about academic subjects that are not interesting to you. this does not belong to the techniques to come up with ideas because having no interest in a certain topic will lose your drive to come up with better ideas. it gives no room for improvement and acquiring of new ideas and information. 

explanation:

answer: d.she abandons people when they least expect it.

in the monk's tale, we encounter seventeen stories that relate historical events. all of these stories have tragic commonalities. they tell the stories of heroes who, despite their success in life, all met sad ends. the monk blames these sad outcomes on fortune. one of fortune's traits is that she abandons people when they least expect it. this is one of the most common themes of medieval tragedies.

the first proposition is to question economic materialism and victorian christianity. the lines are:

“it moves us not.—great god! i'd rather be

a pagan suckled in a creed outworn; ”

wordsworth is stating that nature no longer interests mankind, that the latter is not “moved” by it and explains that ancient western paganism had a more positive attitude concerning nature since it lacked the perv erted judaeo-christian interpretation of having received the world and all its animals and elements from god to use as we , instead of humans actually being not only part of nature but its wardens, meant to appreciate it and protect it.

the next lines are:

“so might i, standing on this pleasant lea,

have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

have sight of proteus coming from the sea;

or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn.”

wordsworth here make it very clear that by actually looking and contemplating nature, human beings would reconnect with happiness, serenity and purpose. the use of mythological figures is quite evocative as well, proteus is a greek mythological god of the changing sea. he personifies the sea that changes, which symbolizes the way nature changes and inevitably can change to be destructive not only due to natural causes but to human pollution. furthermore, the sea is even more symbolic since all life originated in the sea so it is not only our past but our future since no life form in our planet can survive without water and if all water is destroyed in earth all life will be gone as well.

he then uses triton which is symbolic of the synthesis of both nature and mankind. triton is a mythological greek god that has the upper body of a man and the lower body of a fish (a merman). this human fish duality evokes the fact that humans are not only human but also part of nature, the fish tail representing nature. the main attribute of this god was that he used a conch shell as a horn to calm the roaring seas. in other words, triton uses nature through science for the benefit of human sailors who risk death during tempests. with the use of such metaphor, wordworth is conveying the message that human technology   is supposed to use nature to preserve nature and thereby humanity as well.

the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”