Frederick Douglass Book Report

I was prepared for this would be a boring read, but that turned out to not be the case at all. It was fascinating to read someone’s story about being so eager to learn to read and write; things so many of us take for granted. His hard work and determination to achieve his goals fills me with encouragement. Getting a glimpse in the past about how people were treated during this time period leaves most readers with a sense of how could this be. Most of us in today’s world can’t imagine being a slave or being deprived of simple human rights. Frederick Douglass has proven that anyone can achieve anything they want. He had an expansive vocabulary, some words I don’t know myself. I know he started out learning to read and write from the small