Incidents in Reading a Book (Post 23)

While reading this book, there are many descriptive words that come to mind.  Terms like anger, sorrow, disbelief, joy, and confusion all describe feelings that this writing invokes.  On the whole, this writing is almost surreal due to the horrible events that a slave could expect to have happen over the course of a lifetime.  Let's find the interrupt of the discourse.  In grade school, we were taught about how slaves were whipped, beaten, and how numerous other forms of physical abuse were afflicted upon them.  However, this does not even begin to cover the intense psychological and emotional abuse these people were subjected to.  From being scammed out of their money to being denied a temporary leave to pay respects to their recently parted relative, very few people felt compassion for the slaves.  As numerous others have said, the fact that this writing was at one point true to life makes it all the more compelling to the reader; its surreal nature makes one slip into the warm confines of fiction, only to be jerked into a realization of the factual nature of the writing.