Anne posted a comment about how harsh the class has been on Linda's actions. I seem to believe it is because slavery is so removed from our history and minds. Maybe if we compare with another soul rocking event we maybe able to sympathise with Linda and maybe just maybe understand.
Now, I agree that life no matter the era is difficult. The obstacles have just evolved with the changing in culture and society. The only event, since slavery that I can compare (I hate to say compare. but go with me) slavery against is the holocaust. A small group of people were forced to bend to another groups will. Of all the autobiographical stories I have read Anne Frank keeps creeping in.
Anne, like Linda is wise beyond her years and is forced to live in a cramped space and fear that death is around every corner. The largest differences between Anne and Linda are Linda was a mother and did escape. Anne was captured, starved and watched most of her surviving family die in a concentration camp before her own end.
What takes me aback is we has a society sympathise with Anne and her diary, however; in class and even scholars still argue that Linda is a character not a real person. Is it because we as a society are so far removed from slavery? Is Anne's story more compelling? Why do we believe Anne but no in Linda?
It's pathetic, but I truly believe the difference between these two young women is the element of slavery. Americans have been trying to sweep slavery under the rug for years, even to the point of denying its existence. It's not right.
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