Pride and Perseverance

Pride and Perseverance African-American Literature consists of numerous themes or characteristics. for each one story, poem, or striver narrative can be colligate to an oppressive time, when the major character of each piece move to flood forth such hardships. Taking this into consideration, the two characteristics I chose to search in our assignment ar struggle and pride. In some(prenominal) of our readings we were exposed to characters that were dealing with difficulties in their life. However, their perseverance and pride exclusivelyowed them to overcome the obstacles they fought in daily life. The slave narratives show us an in-depth typification of pride helping to overcome ones struggle. For years and years we save heard stories about slavery and they are usually all negative, but in excerpts from To My Old Master, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, and The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, each of these slaves overcame their struggle and came out on top.

        In To My Old Master it does seem as if Jourdon Anderson feels as if he owes his master something, but his instinct is non to go back. I would rather stay here and famish and die if it comes to that than have my girls brought to shame by the violence and pediculosis of their young masters (Young 16).



He and his family have made a better life for themselves. Jourdon has moved his family to another area of the country, his children are in school, his wife is involved with church and he has a decent job.

In the memoir Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs has also escaped her life as a slave. Harriet Jacobs is living her life in a small fell off of her Grandmothers house. Although Harriet has escaped her life as a slave and...

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