1. Cause/Effect Read lines 14-48. Did the mistress's initial kindness or her eventual cruelty have a greater effect on Frederick Douglass? Explain.

The initial kindness had the greatest effect on him because it was because of this kindness that Douglass was able to first start to read and learn. Without that crucial first step, he never would have been free. He says in the book, " Mistress, in teaching me the alphabet, had given me the inch, and nothing could prevent me from taking the ell."

wordsworth tends to see nature as 'out there'; a presence which surrounds humans, and contributes to human life, but is different from humans. if you look at a typical wordsworth poem (there was a boy, ye knew him well ye rocks) - wordsworth talks about nature as something that needs to be learned about and understood, nature is different from us.  

if you look at a byron poem (the isles of greece is a good one) - byron looks at nature mainly for what it already means to man. wordsworth will look at a landscape and see the mountains, trees, valleys, and rivers as almost spiritual presences - wordsworth wants to get to know nature.  

byron will look at the same landscape and he will want to know who lives there, what are the villages? are there any farms or mines, is there some history?  

wordsworth looks at nature for what it is; byron is forever asking what it means.  

wordsworth thinks that humans are part of nature; byron thinks that nature is part of being human

its c

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