Full name: Nguyễn Thị Phương Uyên

Student’s ID: 19DH711573

Homework 2: Learning to read and write
1. About seven years
2. Because during that time teaching blacks was considered an offesnse and he
knows the little boys would be punished for it and suffer
3. Making friends with the local white boys and offering the poor little boys
bread to eat in exchange to be taught. He would also spend time copying what
his master Thomas has written in a book
4. Columbian Orator
5. Douglass kindly helps two Irish sailors at the wharf without being asked
6. Because literacy would give them a sense of self-sufficiency and capability
7. Master Hugh’s wife is Douglass’s mistress .She is initially kind and generous
to Douglass. However, once her husband forces her to stop teaching Douglass
to read and write, her power over Douglass starts to corrupt her. She becomes
cruel and begins to actively thwart Douglass’s attempts to educate himself.