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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Four Phases of a Slave Narrative
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A Slave Girl: A Foundation Slaves narratives are amongst the most personal, touching novels, for two of their purposes are to arouse sympathy and emphasize the cruelty of slave owners Frequent themes of slave narratives include the quest to learn to read, abuses (physical and mental), the exposure of hypocrisy, the dashing of expectations, and destruction of family ties, all of which are included in Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. There are four phases to a slave narrative, being the loss of innocence, the realization of alternatives and resolve to be free, escape, and finally, freedom. In Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs uses each of the four slave narrative phases for a specific purpose- collectively to allow those not involved to experience the slave owners' cruelties, the slaves' struggles, and realize that the road to choosing freedom was long and...
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