Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl has a certain raw energy to it that cannot be compared to any textbook reading I have done or any encyclopedia entry. This raw energy comes from the course, biting language used throughout the narrative. Without such verbage within the story, I think the story would be less captivating. What makes this so special is the rough texture that the dialogue creates. Slavery was not pretty, fluffy or clean, and the story comes off as a much better representation of real life slavery due to the language it uses. Also, I find this story to be more powerful because it is a true story and not a work of fiction. This is because the sheer fact that this particular story actually happened has a much stronger mental effect. Had this story been just a representation of something that may have happened on a plantation that really isn't based on an actual story, I would have taken the plot to a much less serious degree. However, because of the nature of this true story, I not only have really been absorbed into the story, but I also have taken its message much more seriously.
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Brian,
I agree with your statement about how Jacobs's language makes the story more captivating. Also, I like that you say that the way the story is written makes us as the reader more apt to listening and remembering her account of slavery. Obviously the purpose of this story was to reach out to the women in the North to inform them of what it was really like to live through slavery. Thus, it's important that Jacobs used the truth of her story to appeal to the emotions of these women.
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