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Essay Narrative Of The Life Of Gustavus Vassa

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Two years ago my life was in turmoil. I was in an abusive relationship that lasted a total of seven years. I was trapped in this relationship without a beacon of hope. The person that I once was,did not exist. I was dull, lifeless, and shadowed;blinded by my situation trapped with the Devil. Oh what a tangled web we weave. Aaron, the father of my child was not the devil in the beginning, at least I thought. Aaron approached me while I was in the lowest point in my life. My father had just died at the age of 71 and I was only 15. Already mentally and emotionally scorned from my father’s death, I was very gullible and naive. Aaron begin to court me while at school and online. He appear to be well-mannered and polite upon meeting him. Aaron and I spent …show more content…

There is a hand that is larger than the figures in scale, reaching out and grabbing a figure of a man in deep thought. This represents God testing both myself and Equiano’s faith with trials and tribulations. When reading The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Gustavus Vassa the African Written by Himself, I could relate to the emotions he expressed in his writings. Olaudah Equiano writes, “ and I began to think that I must have done something to displease the Lord, that he thus punished me so severely” (Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Gustavus Vassa the African Written by Himself, 80). Equiano begins to contemplate the wrongdoings he may have committed to be punished so severely by God. I reflected on my life thinking I have done somethings wrong also,because God has punished me. Olaudah Equiano writes, “I considered that trials and disappointment are sometimes for our good, and thought God might perhaps have permitted this in order to teach wisdom and resignation” (Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Gustavus Vassa the African Written by Himself, 80). Equiano is having an internal battle with

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