This book analogizes the main character's situation to a man hoping to learn the guitar from his boss who offers to teachhim, charging three dollars for the Âfirst lesson, two for the second, one for the third, and a quarter for the fourth.
This book analogizes the main character's situation to a man hoping to learn the guitar from his boss who offers to teachhim, charging three dollars for the Âfirst lesson, two for the second, one for the third, and a quarter for the fourth. The narratorcompares his struggles to the Israelites who had to "make bricks without straw" aftfter pawning his ring to buy supplies to moldbricks, which he believes develops moral character. In a chapter titled "The Force That Wins," the protagonist is invited toact as the "house father" in a building of seventy-Âfive Indian youth by his mentor General Samuel C. Armstrong. This work'sfiÂnal chapter, "Last Words," recounts Charles Norton inviting the protagonist to receive an honorary degree from Harvard.Governor Bullock rushes on stage to embrace the narrator aftfter he gives a speech beseeching "cast down your bucket whereyou are" at the Atlanta Exhibition, which was dubbed the "Atlanta Compromise" by W.E.B. Dubois. For 10 points, name this1901 autobiography that has several chapters about the Tuskegee Institute, written by Booker T. Washington.
This book analogizes the main character's situation to a man hoping to learn the guitar from his boss who offers to teachhim, charging three dollars for the Âfirst lesson, two for the second, one for the third, and a quarter for the fourth.
Up From Slavery