ENG 101- JR Coopers
I believe that panic and fear are undoubtedly the most important emotional knowledges communicated by slaves. I believe this because they are the daily emotions felt by a slave, without ending, unless they are killed and also, because that fear pushes the slaves to take decisions, for example running away, which could end up being successful. Fear is the most important emotional knowledge also because as we can see in the text Equiano say’s “ I expected every moment, when I heard rustling among the trees, to be found out, and punished by my master. “ This shows that he felt fear permanently and that was having a huge negative impact on him.
Fear is felt throughout the passage, which makes it, in my opinion, the most important one. We may see at some times during the passage some sort of relief from him, but a simple sound or action was enough to make fear dominate his feelings again. “Night too began to approach, and that aggravated all my fears.” Even though Equiano was at times confident that he could find a way to run away from his masters, fear made him take a step back and put him into despair. He ‘entertained hopes of getting home and had determined when it should be dark to make the attempt’ at first but after that his fear made him realize that he would not be able to escape from the human, ‘and that, now knowing the way, I must perish in the woods. Thus was I like the hunted deer.’ Fear impacted Equiano also as we can see that had not eaten or drank during the whole day. His only thought was running away, and I’m pretty sure that his fear contributed to the fact that he didn’t eat or drink. This point shows us that fear is also having a bad effect on his health.
So in the end we see various reasons why fear is the most important emotional knowledge felt by the slaves. They feel it everyday, everywhere they are and no matter what they do. It also has a huge impact on themselves and also on the decisions to make, which will make that they either remain alive and keep on suffering and die to end everything.
Fear is felt throughout the passage, which makes it, in my opinion, the most important one. We may see at some times during the passage some sort of relief from him, but a simple sound or action was enough to make fear dominate his feelings again. “Night too began to approach, and that aggravated all my fears.” Even though Equiano was at times confident that he could find a way to run away from his masters, fear made him take a step back and put him into despair. He ‘entertained hopes of getting home and had determined when it should be dark to make the attempt’ at first but after that his fear made him realize that he would not be able to escape from the human, ‘and that, now knowing the way, I must perish in the woods. Thus was I like the hunted deer.’ Fear impacted Equiano also as we can see that had not eaten or drank during the whole day. His only thought was running away, and I’m pretty sure that his fear contributed to the fact that he didn’t eat or drink. This point shows us that fear is also having a bad effect on his health.
So in the end we see various reasons why fear is the most important emotional knowledge felt by the slaves. They feel it everyday, everywhere they are and no matter what they do. It also has a huge impact on themselves and also on the decisions to make, which will make that they either remain alive and keep on suffering and die to end everything.
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