I still have hope...

I still have hope to believe that this is not my final destination in life. While reading Frederick Douglass narrative of his life this title stayed on my mind. This reading was priceless to me and very heart touching. I often wondered how Frederick Douglass kept his determination after being broken so many times. " Mr Covey succeeded in breaking me. I was broken in body, soul and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute" (Frederick Douglass 264). To me he wasn't a quote unquote normal slave in a way. Yes he had a hard life, but compared to alot of the other slaves in the beginning he was sheilded from alot of the whipping and harsh life of a slave. To be at this point on his journey he was finally pushed to the point of feeling like an animal. He was beat and whipped until he couldn't take it anymore so he decided to do something about it. To be an equal human or shall I say a freed human was all he was in search for. In this part of the story I almost felt like they had "tamed" him, but he had a turning point in the narrative that gave him hope. After all the beatings he fround the courage to stand up to Mr. Covey and show him he was a man. " This battle with Mr. Covey was the turning point in my career as a slave. It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood" (Frederick Douglass 268). This confrontation with Mr. Covey gave him the self confidence he needed to go on in search of his freedom.