he political purpose rather then the personal story. This technique casts her as part of a community of persecuted people rather than just a person with a sad, incredible story. It lets readers know and realize that this is happening to not only her but also many of her people. Jacobs wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in a way that showed her evolution from a child to a poorly educated slave girl/ young adult to a well-established free black woman. As she grew older from a child to a young lady things started to change and things started to get harder. Jacobs wanted to show how her life got more difficult as the years went by. She also wanted to show Northerners that slaves aren't property, they are human beings just like them and go through changes like they do. Throughout Jacobs story you could see that family was a big part in her life and the reader sees how she shows love for them. However, the reader also sees how the bonds of family who loved each other dearly were broken due to slavery. Jacobs not only talks about relationships with family, she also talks of the relationship with her master and also with his wife. However, she does not descriptively entail what her master did to her sexually. She is disturbed and ashamed of it. Her technique of just hinting at her master's acts is a way of conveying that. Using detail may hinder the full effect of it. By the way she did it, it lets the readers infer and possibly think of the worse possible thing that he could have done to her, which conveys how the situation was and how she felt.In the story, Jacobs tells of how slavery not only made slaves unhappy, but also made the owners unhappy, especially the wives of the slave owners. The master's wife was jealous of Harriet because the master wanted Harriet sexually. Jacobs apologizes for her sexual behavior with her master, but she says that slave women should not be judged by the same standard as others. Ja...
