This paper examines Jacob's book for aspects common to other great literary works. The author discusses dialogue, character development, symbolism, and metaphor. This seven page paper has six sources listed in the bibliography.
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was nothing but a slave, whose will must and should surrender to his, never before had my puny arm felt half so strong(Jacobs, 18). This is the
sentiment found in Harriet Jacobss book, Incidents from the Life of a Slave Girl. In this book, it can be seen that the narrator is using quite a few literary
elements in her personal portrayal of African American women during the era of slavery in the United States. Some of these elements include metaphor, vivid imagery, point of view and
intricate detail pertaining to setting and place. All of these literary devices, it can be said contribute to the overall soup that is a book, that mixture and blend of
all the literary elements that serve to illustrate the symbolism, the characters state of mind or to show a glaring irregularity. One of those regularities, the student may wish to
first mention, is the cruel way in which black women were treated as opposed to the white women. She writes: "Such were the unusually fortunate circumstances of my early childhood.
When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave"(Jacobs, 14). In many
ways, black women had to endure two types of prejudice. They had the stigmatism of being slaves, and then, as if the issue of race werent bad enough, they had
to deal with the prejudice that accompanied their gender. In fact, according to what Ms. Jacobs writes, women were discriminated against by white and black men alike. She speaks
of how, when she was twelve years old, her mistress died. At first Jacobs was afraid for what would become of her, but then she remembered what the mistress had