Question

early on morning, late at night two dead boys got up to fight back to back, they faced each other drew their swords and shot each other a deaf policeman heard the noise, and went and shot those two dead boys. if you don't believe this lie is true ask the blind man, he saw it too. What is the author trying to get across?

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Answer:

Read this excerpt from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.

It was the blood-stained gate, the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass. It was a most terrible spectacle.

What is the meaning of the figurative language in this passage?

There was a gate with blood on it at the plantation where Douglass lived.

Douglass had to go through great pain during his escape from slavery.

Being enslaved was the worst experience imaginable.

Douglass was spared the worst kinds of physical torture that other enslaved people faced.anation: