A man can say a lot through his face. For the human race, facial expressions are perhaps the most expressive and universal communication we can use. One does not usually notice the facial expressions of animals, but there is a look. A look you notice in the eyes of two alley cats as they fight over the most generous trash cans. And the look that flashes across the face of the buck just as it …showed first 75 words of 481 total…

…showed last 75 words of 481 total…mind raced at a frantic pace from his hopeless flight, so did his sentences. Douglas’s main appeal to the audience is to put themselves in his place. To see the hunter pursuing him through the swamp of hunger and panic. To “Trust no man!”, and feel utter isolation. Through Douglas’s mastery of imagery his essay is effective in it’s purpose to make the reader “sympathize with the toil-worn and whip-scarred fugitive slave.”