Issue 2
In the second issue of this book it primarily focused on the
working of Frederick Douglas. Douglas is a man who escaped slavery wrote about
the state of the country and his life. In the comic they analyzed his work into
four category's writing style, imagery, implicit message, and ethos.
His writing style would involve
him using certain words to get a point across. In the comic they quote his book
quite a bit and break down what he is saying. When they put up a quote from his
book that read " It was a moment of the highest excitement I ever
experienced." they pointed out why he said highest instead of a similar
word like greatest. The reason being it "evokes an elevation in
status" he was a slave and now he is free which gives him new heights in
possibilities. Imagery is something you see very often in his writing and can
also be seen in the other examples for other analytic devices. Instead of
saying he was lucky to escaped slavery he said "I said i felt like one who
had escaped a den of hungry lions." this makes the text much more
interesting and still tells you the same information without having to be so
direct and plain. An example that works well for implicit message and imagery
is when he compares the men who try to capture black people and sell them into
slavery " as the ferocious beasts of the forest lie in the wait for their
prey." the imagery is comparing them to animals which put a picture
of these men in your head and the implicit message is slaves were also seen as
animals and he was doing the opposite and comparing them to animals. He used
ethos because he was a person who people wanted to hear from on topics. It is
stated in the book that he was "concerned with his authority as a
speaker" and he was asked by many on how he felt to be free in New York.
with all of these things put together you are able to interpret the text much
better than before and you can construct arguments to support his stance among
other things. They also talk about how when you break apart a text and put it
back together with our own ideas we have something called synthesis. Synthesis
goes hand in hand with Analysis. In regard to Fredrick Douglas we can use
analysis to breakdown his text in multiple ways but when you combine it with
synthesis you start using more than one source. It is said that his book has
more than one edition so you would have to scan each copy and synthesize them. Illustration
also play a part in synthesis, in his first edition of his book the picture of
him drawn did not portray him in a away he preferred. In a later edition he got
a new picture that was actually complete and more professional and he looked
much more confident.
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