Learning to Read and Write Summary Essay

In study to Read an excerpt from his autobiography, Frederick Douglass spares about the measures he took to learn to read and write. He shows totally the steps in this excerpt. He was a slave in a house he didnt have whatever opportunity to go to school or compensate any educations but the mistress in the house helped him and taught him the alphabet. But because Douglasss master asked his wife to stop acquireing him. She listened to her husband and turns into inhuman, an immoral woman, Douglass could not recognize her anymore. Douglass writes, She finally became even more violent in her opposition than her husband himself (36). She changed and she became more evil, more violent than the master. But hence that didnt make Douglass stop and stand hopelessly, he found other appearance to learn.He tricked a kid from his neighborhood and makes that kid find out him how to read and it went well. After that he continued to find more way to learn, and analyze improving his readin g. He found a book named The Columbian Orator. He used every opportunity he got try to read this book and learn the words in there. That was the final step that he took to learn to read. Some years later, after he went to a shipyard and saw and board with words, letters, and he wanted to write. He tried to double the letters from the board.He didnt stop he wanted to get more about writing. He found a boy and asked him to teach him write. The boy taught him to write all the alphabet letters. Finally, the last step he took to learn to write was that he took a book and copy all the words in there and try to remember what the words looked like. That was desire and not so easy time for him to learn how to read and write but it didnt stop him from his interest in reading and writing. notwithstanding though he didnt have any opportunity as a slave to have education, he became strong and found any way that could help him to learn. He keep reading and writing until he could read and writ e excellently. Finally he succeeded in learning how to write. Douglass, Frederick. Learning to Read.The Norton Mix. Ed. Elisabeth Kessler,Et. Alia. New York w.w. Norton and Company, 2011. 35-41. Print.