Which sentences in this excerpt from incidents in the life of a slave girl demonstrate how harriet ann jacobs uses a narrative structure and conversational tone to directly appeal to her readers’ sympathy? a) with all these thoughts revolving in my mind, and seeing no other way of escaping the doom i so much dreaded, i made a headlong plunge.
b) pity me, and pardon me, o virtuous reader!
c) you never knew what it is to be a slave; to be entirely unprotected by law or custom; to have the laws reduce you to the condition of a chattel, entirely subject to the will of another.
d) no one can feel it more sensibly than i do. the painful and humiliating memory will haunt me to my dying day.
e) still, in looking back, calmly, on the events of my life, i feel that the slave woman ought not to be judged by the same standard as others.