Blog Post 2
With many of the texts that we have discussed in class, one commonality in them has been a theme of facing challenges thrown at them by oppressive forces. For example, when Mandela had to combat all the things that the prison system threw at him, when Frederick Douglass tried to learn to read even though it being illegal, and Martin Luther King Jr. d iscussin g all the challenges he’s been facing that led up to him being thrown in jail. These are cases where the narrator takes a first-person point of view and gives the reader a fully detailed experience of what troubles they went through. Chapter six of Nelson Mandela’s autobiography, “Long Walk to Freedom” focuses a lot on the challenges that the prison wardens put him through to make his stay at prison tougher. Mandela being a big-name political prisoner means he was treated worse than most other prisoners who are just regular convicted criminals and often wardens pitted the notorious criminals to torment