Read the following excerpt from Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: The ties that ordinarily bind children to their homes were all suspended in my case. I found no severe trial in my departure. My home was charmless; it was not home to me; on parting from it, I could not feel that I was leaving anything which I could have enjoyed by staying.
How does the objective style of this excerpt add power to the story?
A.
It uses irony to show that Douglass disliked his childhood home when he should have loved it.
B.
It relies on understatement to show that Douglass had strong feelings toward his childhood home.
C.
It presents Douglass's feelings about his childhood home in a detached and factual way.
D.
It uses strong imagery to show that Douglass is unsentimental about his childhood home.

first of all the mood needs to be defined: it is obviously a mood of deceitful relief and serenity. why? because the cape horn is one of the most violent maritime regions of earth and although it has been left behind, it is a personification of ahab’s delirium and the fact that the end of the passage speaks about it about being “hidden” but “raving” immediately conveys the feeling the calm is not permanent but fleeting.

furthermore, the oxymoron “mild stun'sails” is the first instance of such feeling as the adjective “mild” is associated with “stunned” underscoring the fleeting nature of this “tranquil” moment. and the contrasts keep piling up, with the opposition between “dark den” and “blessed light and air” to end with the final conclusion that leaves the reader with the uneasy knowledge that this is just a reprieve.

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