Truth vs. Fiction in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Un

Truth vs. Fiction in annals of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Uncle Toms confine It is often said that right is stranger than fiction. Perhaps, this is so, as truth wears no veil it is stark reality. There are no soft edges in truth. Only the most zealous hunters, those willing to stick out the sword, actively seek it. The majority, while considering ourselves open to the truth, may only ascertain it when it comes disguised as something else. In short, it seems that we need to see it as not threatening, but molded and plied into something we can digest. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American slave is a brilliant and powerful piece which details one of the defeat times in American History. After reading Douglass work, those seeking the truth about slavery could not help but to have been compelled to take a crap this institution and those who upheld it. Yet, while there are many who undoubtedly applauded his work, those were uncorrectable times wit h no easy answers, and truth is relative, at best. In lemonlike contrast to Douglass eloquent narrative is Harriet Beecher Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin. This piece of sentimental fiction, while establish on factual accounts, offered Americans an idealized view of slavery. The slaves were relatively content with their strain masters, and the vivid images of brutality that Douglass describes are not seen in Uncle Toms Cabin. However, Stowe, writing from a womans standpoint, presented her own truth in a context that Americans could relate to at the time. In spite of her gender and subsequent social position, and perhaps because of it, through and through her fiction, Stowe succeeded in portraying the institution of slavery for the abomination that it was. Both Uncle Toms Cabin a... .... The Heath Anthology of American Literature. capital of Massachusetts Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002.http//www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/domestic.htmhttp//philjohn.com/papers/pjkd_ga06.htmlh 43vLauter, John. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Boston Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002.Mieder, Wolfgang. Do Unto Others as You Would Have Them Do Unto YouFrederick Douglass Proverbial shinny for Civil Rights . Journal of American Folklore 114 no453 331-57 Summ 2001. Piacentino, Ed. Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin. The Explicator 58 no3 135-8 Spr 2000.Stowe, Harriet B. Uncle Toms Cabin. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Boston Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002.Stowe, Harriet B. The Key to Uncle Toms Cabin. http//etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new?id=StoKeyu&tag=public&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&part=0