Cultural Analysis Of Cesar Jacobs s Cultural Analysis

Raul Rios Professor Peters English 2327 30 April 2016 Harriett Jacobs: Cultural Analysis Cultural analysis can be associated with a person’s race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or region. An easy way to examine a person’s cultural analysis is to simply pull up a text book and or a website about the person and find very good information about the person. Yet when it comes to famous writers of history, their cultural analysis can be determined through their marvelous and significant pieces of writing they have created. Writers such as Fredrick Douglas, Henry David Thoreau, Fanny Fern, and Margaret Fuller, their cultural analysis can be determined through their pieces of writing. The reason being is that these writers†¦show more content†¦Through her work, it’s very easy to obtain a cultural analysis on her as a person because she wrote about all the daily brutal struggles as a female slave. With Jacobs’ significant piece of writing, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Jacobs reall y goes into detail on how life for a slave girl that has been a slave since she was born until she was finally free from her slave holders. It’s a great piece of writing and the way she wrote it, the story seems to come alive. The way she was able to make her work come alive to the reader is that not only she wrote what would happen to any ordinary slave girl, but she was able to put parts of her own life experiences within Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. First, let’s go over some background information and touch on Jacob’s back story and her life. As previously mentioned before, Jacobs was born into slavery in Edenton, North Carolina, in the year of 1813. Even though Jacobs was born as a slave, as a child she was really unaware of it. The reason being is that her parents’ slave holders, allowed them to live together. Then following the tragic loss of her mother, in the year of 1825, her slave owners were Dr. and Mrs. James Norcom. Despite all the hard work she would do for them day by day, she constantly experienced abuse. Such as being sexually threatened by Dr. Norcom and being physically abused by his wife. Despite the abuse she would encounter day by day, she happened