What is the rule Emerson gives in Section 8 of "Self-
Reliance" that applies to
actual living as well as to
intellectual thinking?

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think

autobiography of an ex-colored man is told from the first-person point of view of an unnamed male narrator. he starts his tale by stating that he is going to reveal the great secret of his life. he first takes the reader to his childhood in georgia where he was raised by a single mother. he was dissapointed in his own color.

3rd person, because the narrator is out of the story but explains the feeling of the main character