Fill in the blank with a name from Douglass’ Narrative: I w…
Fill in the blank with a name from Douglass’ Narrative: I will venture to assert, that my friend Mr. ____________ (of whom I can say with a grateful heart, “I was hungry, and he gave me meat; I was thirsty, and he gave me drink; I was a stranger, and he took me in”) lived in a neater house; dined at a better table; took, paid for, and read, more newspapers; better understood the moral, religious, and political character of the nation,—than nine tenths of the slaveholders in Talbot county Maryland.
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Identify the context and significance of this quotation from Hedda Gabler (4-6 good sentences): It’s a liberation for me to know that in this world an act of courage, done in full, free will, is possible. something bathed in a bright shaft of sudden beauty. . . . . All I know is that Eilert Lovborg had the courage to live life his own way, and now–his last great act–bathed in beauty. He–had the will to break free from the banquet of life–so soon.
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