Linda Brents Goals in Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the...

In Harriet Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, the motives and goals of Linda Brent affected her self-image and her relationships with those around her. There were three important scenes in this selection that exemplified her motives and goals. One of these scenes was when she deteriorated her health in a crawl space in order for her to escape her wretched life. Linda feared that Dr. Flint would send her children to the plantations, because Mrs. Flint did not want her to leave the plantation. Mrs. Flint believed if she brought Linda’s children to the plantation Linda would never leave, and they would all be forced to engage in slavery for good. Linda could not bear the thought of her children being forced into such cruelty, therefore she created a plan that included her running away. She ended up in a crawl space attached to her grandmother’s house. That space allowed for little to no room, no warmth in the winter, no cool air in the summer, and no interact ion with anyone, except for the grandmother at night. Her motive for living this way was her children. Her goals being to be with her kids and be free of Dr. Flint, and slavery. She wanted to be able to leave her crawl space, flee to the North, and be reunited with her children. She was granted such success and found companions with the Bruce family. â€Å"Linda . . . escaped to the North . . . was reunited with her children . . . and found work in the Bruce household† (2361, Note). Another scene is when sheShow MoreRelated Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig1853 Words   |  8 Pages The Cambridge Introduction to the 19th-Century American Novel, the traditional sentimental novel’s storyline focuses around a young woman finding her way through life, usually without the support of a conventional family. The women overcome life’s hardships, and â€Å"the key to these women’s triumphs lies in their achievement of self-mastery† (Cane 113). According to Gregg Cane, these didactic novels are targeted at young women to instill the idea that a domestic home, marriage, and family are whatRead More Racial Ideologies in Frederick Douglass and Linda Brents Narratives1439 Words   |  6 PagesRacial Ideologies in Frederick Douglass and Linda Brents Narratives 4) Slavery was justified by racial ideology. Consider three texts, including one that was written by a former slave. How do the authors either replicate or refute racial ideologies common in the nineteenth century? I am going to focus on the narratives of Frederick Douglass and Linda Brent as examples of a refusal of racial ideologies and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin as an example of replicating (althoughRead More Essay on Traditions in Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl3753 Words   |  16 PagesA Medley of Traditions in   Jacobs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl       Though considerable effort has been made to classify Harriet Ann JacobsIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself as another example of the typical slave narrative, these efforts have in large part failed. Narrow adherence to this belief limits real appreciation of the texts depth and enables only partial understanding of the author herself Jacobss story is her own, political yes, but personal as well