Frederick Douglass Importance Of Education

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(insert creative title here) In the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, the importance of education is a monumental theme. Throughout the novel, Douglass fights with the importance of education, and the harsh realities of that knowledge. Despite the fact that Douglass knows that being literate is an essential step in the journey to becoming a freeman, he is troubled by all this knowledge about the horrors and inhumanity of his situation. Throughout the novel Frederick Douglass has two goals, Freedom and Literacy. Douglass’ road to literacy proved to be a long and hard one. When he was six Douglass’ mistress at the time had taught him how to read, “Very soon after i went to live with Mr.Auld and Mrs.Auld, she very kindly