What Is Frederick Douglass Taking Risk

You will never know if you do not take risks, what could have happened. Sometimes risks could be good sometimes they can be bad but you never really want to live with the regret of what could have been. ¨Chasing Lincoln's Killer¨ a beautiful novel if you have never heard of it. The book is about all of the planning and the time John Wilkes Booth put into the murder of Abraham Lincoln. The author talks about how Booth thought it would be a good idea however would be a huge risk. In ¨The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass,¨ Frederick Douglass highlights his experience at the beginning of slavery and the risks he took to escape it. Douglass believed the decision would be good for himself. Taking risks can both have helpful and harmful outcomes by allowing others to create a better life for themselves but it can be harmful by creating an issue for many people and themselves in the aftermath, the helpfulness is shown in ¨Frederick Douglass¨ and the harm in ¨Chasing Lincoln's Killer¨.

Frederick Douglass talks about how growing up in slavery affected him and how he learned to read a little from his master's wife. When her husband found out about it he was furious so Douglass had to turn to kids in the streets to teach him. Frederick Douglass took the risk of learning to read and write when he was forbidden to. In the outcome of the risk Frederick Douglass took he learns to read and write and realizes the horror of his circumstances. He wrote¨ It had given me the view of my wretched condition, without the remedy.¨ (paragraph 7,Douglass). In realization of his condition he decides to escape to freedom. Taking the risk of learning to read allowed him to learn of his position and decide to