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- 1: Taking The Hard Road
- Working class autobiographies “illuminated how social position, or location in social hierarchies, [were] internalized as identity” (Maynes 3). Where otherwise the only source of information of the past would be statistics and those of historians, the autobiographies give the reader a feel of what the working classes were going through in a more personal way. The conditions in which they lived and the politics or beliefs they lived by can be examined for differences or qualities they might share. Unfortunately, there are many difficulties in autobiographies. The working class rarely wrote autobiographies themselves. Often the autobiographers were, although they were classified as working-class, more then the average worker. They had a greater grasp of their reading and writing skills ...
- 2: Fredrick Douglass 5
- ... not there. He used wit and good natured cunning to trick local school boys into teaching him the alphabet. If he had never sought knowledge, he would never been able to write any of his autobiographies which live on even today as important accounts of slavery. Also, without knowledge, he would not have become an American legend like he is today. After writing his Narrative he wrote another biography in 1855 ... the best black speaker and writer ever. His success came from his fight against slavery. Being a former slave, he had a very good reason to participate in the antislavery movement. He wrote three significant autobiographies that helped define the way literature developed during the Civil War time period. These three autobiographies: Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave; My Bondage And My Freedom; and Life And Times Of Frederick Douglass, are the works that are seen to express a nation s disappointment ...
- 3: The Life and Work of Frederick Douglass
- ... not there. He used wit and good natured cunning to trick local school boys into teaching him the alphabet. If he had never sought knowledge, he would never been able to write any of his autobiographies which live on even today as important accounts of slavery. Also, without knowledge, Frederick Douglass would not have become an American legend like he is today. Christianity also played an important role in Frederick Douglass ... was possibly the best black speaker and writer ever. His success came from his fight against slavery. Being a former slave, Douglass had much reason to participate in the antislavery movement. Douglass wrote three significant autobiographies that helped define the way literature developed during the Civil War time period. These three autobiographies: Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave; My Bondage And My Freedom; and Life And Times Of Frederick Douglass, are the works that are seen to express a nation's discontent ...
- 4: The Life and Work of Frederick Douglass
- ... not there. He used wit and good natured cunning to trick local school boys into teaching him the alphabet. If he had never sought knowledge, he would never been able to write any of his autobiographies which live on even today as important accounts of slavery. Also, without knowledge, Frederick Douglass would not have become an American legend like he is today. Christianity also played an important role in Frederick Douglass ... was possibly the best black speaker and writer ever. His success came from his fight against slavery. Being a former slave, Douglass had much reason to participate in the antislavery movement. Douglass wrote three significant autobiographies that helped define the way literature developed during the Civil War time period. These three autobiographies: Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave; My Bondage And My Freedom; and Life And Times Of Frederick Douglass, are the works that are seen to express a nation's discontent ...
- 5: Frederick Douglass
- ... Society and a colleague of William Lloyd Garrison. He published his own newspaper called The North Star. Douglass also participated in the first women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, in 1848, and wrote three autobiographies: An American Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom , and Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. He was internationally recognized as an uncompromising abolitionist, indefatigable worker for justice and equal opportunity, and an unyielding defender of ... against racial injustice. He started the Antislavery movement. His great speeches made deep impressions, and influenced others such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King to speak out against oppression and racism. By writing his autobiographies, he exposed the evils of slavery. People saw how it was and this contributed to the end of slavery.
- 6: The Works of Clive Staples Lewis
- ... his Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics, published in 1919 and Dymer, published in 1926, both written under his pseudonym Clive Hamilton (“John Visser,” Literary Works. Online.). Lewis wrote theology, literary criticism, novels, and autobiographies, along with poetry. For a long time he was an atheist until he said, "In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed…" (“Douglas Gresham ... is affected by science's perspectives on the universe, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (1966), Spenser's Images of Life (1967), Selected Literary Essays (1969), and Present Concerns (1986). C. S. Lewis wrote two autobiographies that allow present-day readers to peer into his mind and writing. Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life was published in 1955 and described his miraculous conversion from atheism to Christianity (“John ...
- 7: Langston Hughes
- ... his life to writing and lecturing. He wrote sixteen books of poems, two novels, three collections of short stories, four volumes of "editorial" and "documentary" fiction, twenty plays, children's poetry, musicals and operas, three autobiographies, a dozen radio and television scripts and dozens of magazine articles. In addition, he edited seven anthologies. The long and distinguished list of Hughes' works includes: Not Without Laughter (1930); The Big Sea (1940); I Wonder As I Wander" (1956), his autobiographies. His collections of poetry include: The Weary Blues (1926); The Negro Mother and other Dramatic Recitations (1931); The Dream Keeper (1932); Shakespeare In Harlem (1942); Fields of Wonder (1947); One Way Ticket (1947); The First ...
- 8: Langston Hughes
- ... his life to writing and lecturing. He wrote sixteen books of poems, two novels, three collections of short stories, four volumes of "editorial" and "documentary" fiction, twenty plays, children's poetry, musicals and operas, three autobiographies, a dozen radio and television scripts and dozens of magazine articles. In addition, he edited seven anthologies. The long and distinguished list of Hughes' works includes: Not Without Laughter (1930); The Big Sea (1940); I Wonder As I Wander" (1956), his autobiographies. His collections of poetry include: The Weary Blues (1926); The Negro Mother and other Dramatic Recitations (1931); The Dream Keeper (1932); Shakespeare In Harlem (1942); Fields of Wonder (1947); One Way Ticket (1947); The First ...
- 9: Stephen King
- ... great and vivid detail that is set in a realistic everyday place. Stephen King who is mainly known for his novels, has broadened his horizons to different types of writings such as movie scripts, nonfiction, autobiographies, children s books, and short stories. While Stephen King might be best known for his novels The Stand and It, some of his best work that has been published are his short stories such as ...
- 10: Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
- ... in itself makes Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee an important work of literature as it is one of the few books supporting the Indian cause. This is done through the use of council records, autobiographies, and first-hand accounts. Each of the book's nineteen chapters deals with a certain tribe, battle, or historical event. Brown goes into deep and explicit detail throughout, as evidenced by the book's nearly ...
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