This book is about a boy who grew up watching and living all of the torture and hardships in the slave world. This is a narrative of a life that was battled through, and overcome by a man named Frederick Douglass. The life that was written about in this story is a life that everyone should know and learn about. Frederick Douglass tells us his tale of not only his life, but of our United States awful history, and the terrible things that some had to go through and the wrongs of the people putting them through it.

Frederick Douglass tells his story of hardship and hurt; his thirst for knowledge and freedom. He relived the pain and tough memories to tell the world a story that will tear at your heart, and give you knowledge of all the wrong doings of that time. He does not want pity or sorrow, just to give the world a taste of his life and thousands of other lives very similar to his own. He wants to share his hurts and to mourn those who died and did not make it. Frederick Douglass just wants to share a story of perseverance, strong-will, and determination. To show that even what you thought was impossible is within your reach and can be done. He tells his story of his dream coming true. Freedom becoming his; his dream coming true. Frederick Douglass's dreams were possible, and others can be too.

Douglas was an abolitionist. He didn't want racism and also believed in woman's rights. He wanted peace. Many however doubted him and didn't believe that he was ever a slave. So it is said that Douglas felt he needed to write the narrative to prove he really was a slave. When his narrative came out his story hit people hard. Everyone read it and not only did it prove that he was a slave but people then knew the tyranny and torture that he lived and survived through. People then knew the life of Frederick Douglass.

However, even though it is said that Douglass wrote the narrative to prove he was a slave. The story has a deeper meaning. It's not just a story of a slave and simply what he went through. The story as emotion. As a boy he had dreams and he reached them. He tells us a story of a life that is hard to imagine. For people to read this story now and be able to feel as he felt; to know what he went through, its impossible. Nobody can compare their life to what Frederick Douglass or others like him to their lives. To feel the lose, the hurt and the empty feeling that they had not only in their stomachs but in their heart. This story brings out an emotional story of survival and to show that when all is lost, their is still hope. It's a story that gives us inspiration and would turn even the coldest heart warm again.