Write two to three paragraphs to address the prompt. Use specific information from the text to support your statements. Explain the different viewpoints of Frederick Douglass and Captain Canot regarding slavery. What evidence does each use? How does each present his information?
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Reading multiple texts about a single topic—even if those texts express opposing viewpoints—can help deepen and improve your understanding. For that reason, you will now read an excerpt from Captain Canot, or Twenty Years of an African Slaver.

Before you begin, know that Canot was a slave trader. His views on the institution of slavery and the practice of treating human beings as cargo are repulsive. Likewise, his descriptions of the conditions that enslaved people faced aboard his ship are disturbing. Reading Canot’s work, however, offers us the chance to more fully understand the brutal realities of slavery and to develop a greater appreciation for Frederick Douglass’s efforts to see the institution ended.

Finally, as you read this memoir, remember that different texts—particularly difficult ones—require multiple reading strategies at once. So, make sure you draw upon every strategy in your comprehension toolbox: make predictions, stop and summarize, decode unfamiliar vocabulary, and ask yourself questions to check in on your comprehension. Use the Student Guide to apply reading strategies

Explanation:

in   ¨and yet the books¨   by czelaw miloz the tone is positive since it tells us that when we touch a book, it starts to live and the perspective is in the third person and turns once into the first person. in "the rhinoceros" by eugene ionesco the tone is illogical and absurd   and the perspective is in the third person since it is a play.