ide story into the readers’ minds. One good example of this is when he is talking about slave songs, “I have often been utterly astonished, since I came to the north, to find persons who could speak of the singing, among slaves, as evidence of their contentment and happiness.” (9). This shows the readers of his concerns by just adding a brief story in to interest the reader. Another good anecdote used by Douglass was with his move to Baltimore. “She was going to give me a pair of trousers, which I should not put on unless I got all the off me.” (17), this is a little story, nothing big in his life but he uses it to show an aspect of his move to Baltimore.Finally, he uses great plot twists to keep the reader on the edge of his toes. At the beginning of the novel you don’t really know where he is going with the narrative. With some writers their use of foreshadowing, gives you the narrative 10 pages into it. Douglass however keeps the reader involved in the story because they need to think of what is next. This is shown when he gives no forewarning of his move into the Auld house. He starts chapter five (16) by telling of his treatment on Colonel Lloyd’s plantation right into “I was probably between seven and eight years old when I left Colonel Lloyd’s plantation.”These narrative techniques used by Douglass give the reader an in depth look into his life, and persuade the readers it was directed to in the north to join his abolitionist cause. The narrative is a great piece of literature, not only for his day, but for ours because we can learn so much about slavery from it....
