Adversity In Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass

Adversity, what really is adversity? In a recent discussion, adversity is when a trial comes in someone’s way that they just have to overcome. Another definition is when society finds their hope in others to help them get through tough trials. There are many different types of adversities that people have to conquer: physical, mental, emotional, and even spiritual. Multiple people deal with hardships some time in his or her life, it’s how it’s coped with which shows a true character. In the book, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick is a black man who lives in Maryland as a slave during the 1800’s. Douglass faced adversity even as a child. Douglass’s mother, Harriet Bailey loved Frederick very much, even though she lived very far away from him, owned to another slave master. He only saw her “more than four or five times in [his] life” (Douglass 2). Harriet had gotten very sick, but Douglass writes, “ I was not allowed to be present during her illness, at her death or burial” (2). Meanwhile, Fredericks father was the exact opposite he had heads that “opinion was also whispered that my master was my father; but the correctness of this opinion, I know nothing; the means of knowing was withheld

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