Philip Caputo spent his life acquiring the skills of killing, learning how to fieldstrip and assemble and M-14 rifle blindfolded, how to face death, and how to cause it. This was the normal lifestyle of Caputo's time, war. Caputo knew nothing about the everyday lifestyles we lead today. His life was delayed from marriage, careers, and family life. .
Caputo joined the Marines in 1960 as a volunteer. Caputo wanted to live heroically. He had a desire for danger. He wanted to live in violence and challenge. He was sick of his childhood. It had become dull and he felt that there was nothing left for him in the safe and secure town he grew up in. Caputo also wanted to prove himself. He wanted to prove his manhood, a common characteristic of young men. He felt as if his parents thought he relied on them. He was sick of the fact that his parents thought him to be irresponsible.
Caputo was raised in Westchester, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago that was created as result of World War II. He spent his freshman year at Purdue where he couldn't afford to continue, as he was unable to find a job as a result of the bad economy. Caputo then transferred to a commuter college in Loyola. Here he found the opportunity he had been waiting for. There was a Marine recruiting team set up at the University. Caputo was convinced the answer to his problem was war. .
Caputo enlisted to the Platoon Leader's Class. This was the Marine's version of ROTC. He would attend basic training during his break from school for 6 weeks. The intense training was a physically as well as psychologically tough experience. Training was torture, but Caputo was able to withstand the hardships because of an overwhelming desire to succeed. He figured nothing could be as bad as telling his family he had failed. Caputo made it through and started his advanced training course two years later. Here they not only had physical training but were brainwashed to thinking that killing was good.
For example, just when the book starts in the very first chapter Fredrick Douglas talks about his very first experience of seeing someone getting beaten. ... Another thing that shows how bad they treated them, is when in the second or third chapter Fredrick Douglas talks about how if the master caught anybody with tar on them they would beat them horribly for supposedly trying to steal fruit. ...
The first similar characteristic between Maya Angelou and Fredrick Douglas is that both of them were religious. ... The second point is that both Maya Angelou and Fredrick cared about Church. ... The second similar characteristic between Maya Angelou and Fredrick Douglas is that they were both perseverant. ... Fredrick's perseverance allowed him to rebel against Edward and to win a physical confrontation which stopped Edward from trying to beat Fredrick again. ... The first point is both Maya and Fredrick were abolitionists against slavery and Fredrick even became the leader of the abol...
In, "My Bondage and My Freedom-, Fredrick Douglas takes you back into his life long enough for you to gather the pieces of the puzzle that unveils the missing pieces of his future. ... In, Fredrick Douglass case, the weed killer was a book, "Columbian Orator."" ... Fredrick was now breaking through and getting a first look at a different world. ... Fredrick Douglass no doubt had a hard time. ... Fredrick was free. ...
Frederick Douglas has become a free man and that he is saying slavery was wrong to him. ... As the owner of Fredrick Douglas with his time at my plantation, I treated him fairly. ... Fredrick Douglas is the smartest person I have ever seen. ... I have high hopes and dreams for Fredrick, and I am happy he is a free slave. ... No, I did not let Fredrick Douglas escape. ...
Fredrick Douglas was born some were between 1817 and 1818. ... Harriet died when Fredrick was little so Fredrick only has a vague remembrance of her. ... Fredrick was late chosen to live with the Auld's in Baltimore. ... Fredrick did a good job to drag you right in the story. ... Fredrick Douglas brings you the real reality of life as a slave. ...
Fredrick Douglass was a man, which wanted more than to be a slave but a freeman,. ... Gore then, without consultation or deliberation with any one, not even giving him an additional call, raised his musket to his face, and taking deadly aim at his victim, and then in a poor instant Demby was no more (Douglas 14) ". ... Covey was a poor man; he was commencing in life; he was only able to buy one salve; and, shocking as in the fact, he bought her, as he said for a breeder (Douglas 37)". ... The truth was that he didn't whip me at all (Douglas 43)". ... Fred Douglas took this theory of fi...
Fredrick Douglas was born some were between 1817 and 1818. ... Harriet died when Fredrick was little so Fredrick only has a vague remembrance of her. ... Fredrick was late chosen to live with the Auld's in Baltimore. ... Fredrick did a good job to drag you right in the story. ... Fredrick Douglas brings you the real reality of life as a slave. ...
It is this concept that I went on to examine in the piece Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglas. ... In Frederick Douglas' narrative, it is unknown whether or not his birth was welcomed. ... Assuming this was true, Douglas was probably both an embarrassment and a property asset to his father. ... This power also became equally clear to Frederick Douglas. ... This was a defining moment in Douglas' career. ...
Average men, such as Abraham Lincoln, Fredrick Douglas, and Walt Disney, put in some hard work and now are remembered as "self-made" men. ... Fredrick Douglas rose from the shackles of slavery to extraordinary success due to his virtue. Douglas did not give up when his master's wife, who had been teaching him the alphabet, was reprimanded for doing so by her husband. ... Douglas also did not give up when was traded to Edward Covey, a man who regularly beat him. ... When it comes to rags and riches, there are no rags worse than those that were given to slaves, but that did not st...
