Comparing Douglass And Things Fall Apart

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Subsequent to perusing both works "Things Fall Apart" and the "Account of the life of Frederick Douglass", I have chosen to think about the two principle characters, Fredrick and Okonkwo. These characters are indistinguishable in the ways that they have attempted to turn their lives around. Every character has worked and advanced to improve as a man. They have utilized their past to guarantee a superior future. They utilize the aptitudes they've gained growing up to advance into better men; Better men then the ones they have been around all through their adolescence. Fredrick Douglass assumes the part of storyteller and he demonstrates to us that the purpose of this account is to demonstrate the movement he has produced using uneducated, mistreated slave to a common and understandable political observer. One may even trust this is the topic of the whole work. As Frederick Douglass states, "I have been much of the time asked how I felt when I ended up in a free state. I have never possessed the capacity to answer the inquiry with any fulfillment to myself". In spite of the fact that he has come to "opportunity" in the north he can't relax on the grounds that he expects that at any moment he may be grabbed and sent back toward the south. He reasons for alarm being oppressed again and has considerations …show more content…

They don't needed anything to do with the things that happened in their past lives or the general population that may have had an impact over them. They didn't depend on any other individual to offer them some assistance with getting to that point; they comprehended and developed to get things going all alone. These two men realized what they needed and attempted to get that with a specific end goal to expand their perspectives. As I would like to think they both had the same level of determination and they don't let anything impede

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