“ I was somewhat unmanageable when I first went there, but a few months of this discipline tamed me. Mr. Covey succeeded in breaking me. I was broken in body, soul, and spirit.” By saying he was unmanageable he’s telling us about his learning and wisdom he’s obtained. The arrangement of the words unmanageable and tamed proclaims the meaning of him as a slave was characterized as some sort of animal and that was exactly how they were treated. Douglass was broken due to how he was treated and he was living a life of being empty and that is expressed with him saying he was broken in body, soul, and spirit. This conveys the negative energy left in him and how distressed and drained he was. The first paragraph also gives you an idea of how half a year felt like for them which felt like years. It’s a hyperbole and he exaggerated a bit, the by that way Douglass describes it, you could visualize the way it must have felt if you went through the same thing as in trying to connect with the
“ I was somewhat unmanageable when I first went there, but a few months of this discipline tamed me. Mr. Covey succeeded in breaking me. I was broken in body, soul, and spirit.” By saying he was unmanageable he’s telling us about his learning and wisdom he’s obtained. The arrangement of the words unmanageable and tamed proclaims the meaning of him as a slave was characterized as some sort of animal and that was exactly how they were treated. Douglass was broken due to how he was treated and he was living a life of being empty and that is expressed with him saying he was broken in body, soul, and spirit. This conveys the negative energy left in him and how distressed and drained he was. The first paragraph also gives you an idea of how half a year felt like for them which felt like years. It’s a hyperbole and he exaggerated a bit, the by that way Douglass describes it, you could visualize the way it must have felt if you went through the same thing as in trying to connect with the