Solid essay about biographical determinism in former slave/writer Biography and History -- Harriet Jacob's The Life of a Slave Girl To be a good writer, you must posess a careful balance between detachment and association, a delicate waltz where you are not so wrapped up in the events of a story that it alienates the reader, and yet not so far separated from the subject matter that the readers cannot get into it. This …showed first 75 words of 1024 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1024 total…deceit in the chapters that she writes, because that would work against her. Her message is simple, she explains it in a dialogue with her brother: 'He grew vexed, and asked if poverty and hardships with freedom, were not preferable to our treatment in slavery. Linda,' he continued, we are dogs here; foot-balls, cattle, every thing that's mean. No, I will not stay. Let them bring me back. We don't die but once.''