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Texas EOC English 2: 4.5 Understanding and Analysis of Literary Texts 168 Views
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke too
- 00:05
Sure brought to you by evil minded men and women
- 00:08
that wasn't meant to reflect the makers of the eoe
- 00:10
see however were all love You guys Okay check out
- 00:16
the following passage and we'll just quietly back out of
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- 00:18
the room All right Narrative of the life of frederick
- 00:22
douglass This guy could write Okay We're skim and even
- 00:26
greater sissy nation that never proved their public manner Can't
- 00:31
manning All right read the following excerpt from the basses
- 00:36
right here we owe something to the slave south of
- 00:40
the line as well as to those north of it
- 00:43
And in aiding the latter on their way to freedom
- 00:45
We should be careful to do nothing which would be
- 00:48
likely to hinder the former from escaping from slavery All
- 00:52
right From the excerpt above the reader can infer that
- 00:54
the author what And here the potential answers He is
- 00:59
really good Right Okay All right Well let's Zoom in
- 01:02
on the excerpt and see what the author has to
- 01:03
say Well choice They must have read a different excerpt
- 01:07
Douglas doesn't say anything about enslaved slaves being more important
- 01:11
Than escaped slaves be wasn't paying attention either Douglas also
- 01:15
isn't saying that the escape from slavery itself hurts people
- 01:18
who are still enslaved and finally see doesn't get it
- 01:21
right because douglas never says that former slave should remember
- 01:24
those still stuck in slavery Okay that sounded bad he's
- 01:28
not suggesting they should say what abs to them Either
- 01:31
way we'll find out what he's saying an answer D
- 01:33
which is the correct one The thesis of this particular
- 01:36
passage is in the final sentence How convenient douglas says
- 01:41
that the efforts tto help escaping slaves shouldn't hinder impede
- 01:45
pulled back prevent the efforts of other slaves to escape
- 01:49
Got that Because seriously can't we almost always file impeding
- 01:53
slaves escaping under worse things to possibly do in humanity 00:01:58.624 --> [endTime] Yeah
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