Analysis Of Aunt Chip And The Great Triple Creek Dam Affair

In most present-day societies, people have the freedom to read and think what they wish without censorship or restrictions. It is these very freedoms that allow the people of a society to explore the works of others and later accept them or criticize them with the thoughts that belong uniquely to them. Should a society lose the freedom of doing such things, could prove to be dangerous by tipping the scales of power where it would be unfavorable to a significant portion of the population. People can be easily manipulated when they are ignorant of the actual state of affairs in any given situation. Such ignorance allows a dominant group of people to gain control of or nearly everything, such as the facts that one believes to be true.†¦show more content†¦The consequences of no longer reading, led to the people of Triple Creek to replace teachers at school with televisions and use books to prop up furniture all over the town. Once the television tower was destroyed, they peopl e in Triple Creek became outraged because that did not know what to do without television. The consequences of the townspeople in Triple creek forgetting how to read is only justifiable to the townspeople themselves. They found no need to read, ever since the television tower was installed. While Patricia Polacco’s Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair shows what could happen if a town abandoned books, the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass demonstrates the dangers of forbidding a group of people from learning how to read. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass. The memoir tells the story of his life as a slave and the events in his life that led him to become a freedman. Douglass is taught to read which serves to be a powerful skill for his future. Upon leaving to the North as a free man, he attends an anti-slavery convention and begins his work as an abolitionist. His work is remembered to be a powerful piece of literature that illustrates the cruelty and crime Blacks faced during the time of slavery. The narrative also served to influence the abolition movement of the early nineteenth century.