Read this excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass We were not regularly allowanced. Our food was coarse
corn-meal boiled, This was called mush It was put into a
large wooden tray or trough, and set down upon the
ground. The children were then called, like so many pigs,
and like so many pigs they would come and devour the
mush; some with oystershells, others with pieces of
shingle, some with naked hands, and none with spoons. He
that ate fastest got most he that was strongest secured
the best place; and few left the trough satisfied
Which best explains how Douglass uses objectivity to convey his perspective
in this passage?
A. He uses formal word choice, like allowanced' and 'secured to
establish his authority
B. He avoids sentimentality by simply describing the conditions in
which enslaved people lived
c. He creates pathos by referring to his hunger to make readers feci
Sorry for him
D. He include detailsuch as wooden traand terhelts that
erity hiterience