The Fight With Covey!
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- The Fight with Covey!
- The Fight with Covey!
- Event #1
- “Ha, ha! Come, come! Dash on, dash on!”
- "That's no excuse, rise up I say."
- Event #2
- “What is the matter with you?”
- “I don’t feel my best.”
- Amruta Issac
- Event #3
- “I don’t understand Jenkins, how can this root help my treacherous life.”
- Douglass is being worked hard by Covey, his new master and is often whipped or beaten up by Covey as well.
- Climax
- Due to the extreme weather Douglass and the other slaves were forced to work in, Douglass collapsed. When Covey found him he soon got heavily beaten up for this incident.
- Resolution
- “I will not be a slave to no one.”
- After running away from Covey’s plantation to his first master (Thomas Auld) to ask for help, he was disappointed in his fate for he was once ordered to return. When he returned he took refuge in the woods and was given a magic root by a slave Sandy Jenkins. The root was said to prevent any slave holding it from being whipped.
- “Very well, thank you.”
- “It can do no harm if it does no good. The choice is yours”
- “You don’t own me and can’t treat me this way. I’m a human being too.”
- Immediately when Douglass returns he is trapped in a loft by Covey. Here, Covey tries to tackle and beat Douglass, however Douglass decides to fight him back despite being a mere slave.
- “You think you can just run away from me. Your mine, my slave now.”
- Douglass wins the fight, with the fear of experiencing such an event Covey never tried to beat him from then on. This teached Douglass of the importance of human rights, perseverance, and independence.
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