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sessifetWhile writing the outline (*arghflailmuchgnashingofteeth*) this popped up in my head:
Conclusion to the essay I will start writing in a few days
Olaudah Equiano has been robbed of his African 'self', his heritage, by slavery, and throughout the novel we see him slowly building a new 'self'. However, this new 'self' is of necessity partly made up out of components of the 'other', the European culture. In the end, the person who emerges is neither solely African, nor entirely European. Instead we see the amalgamation of the two: Gustavus Vassa, The African.
Nifty, no?
Unfortunately, this is my painfully constructed thesis for the outline:
Olaudah Equiano uses the familiar language and rhetoric of Christianity and the Bible to expose the hypocrisy of slavery and maltreatment of black freemen.
There's a gap there.
In fact, it's the bloody Grand Canyon.
Conclusion to the essay I will start writing in a few days
Olaudah Equiano has been robbed of his African 'self', his heritage, by slavery, and throughout the novel we see him slowly building a new 'self'. However, this new 'self' is of necessity partly made up out of components of the 'other', the European culture. In the end, the person who emerges is neither solely African, nor entirely European. Instead we see the amalgamation of the two: Gustavus Vassa, The African.
Nifty, no?
Unfortunately, this is my painfully constructed thesis for the outline:
Olaudah Equiano uses the familiar language and rhetoric of Christianity and the Bible to expose the hypocrisy of slavery and maltreatment of black freemen.
There's a gap there.
In fact, it's the bloody Grand Canyon.
