All of the memoirs in this unit are told from the first-person point of view. why is it important that they are told in the first person? how would they be different if they were told from a different point of view? imagine one of the memoirs you read told from a different point of view, and use that example to explain both the benefits of telling the story in the first person and how it would be different if told from another point of view. memoirs are a cub pilot. a barrio boy. no gumption. and i know why the caged bird sings

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ”go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival. what is one way that douglass achieves his purpose of persuading the reader to see his point of view? by relating as many facts and statistics to the reader as possibleby using familiar and casual language to make the reader feel comfortableby using gentle language to evoke a sense of calm and tranquilityby repeating the word “you” to directly relate to the reader