could you please read this and come with good points and make draft for this assignment. below is the short essay in attachnment. 

Learning to Read and Write

In the article, the author is an African who is a slave in the land of white people and manages to learn how to write and read during his slavery period. The first person to help the author on achieving this was his mistress who was instructing him on how to learn while keeping an eye on him. The mistress at firs was very kind and tender hearted, and she was treating slaves as the human being but later on things changed due to the influence and she became cruel and violent. That is the time when she stopped instructing the author and saw danger when he was found reading a newspaper. The author later figured out a way of learning by making friends with little white kids whom he was meeting on the street. He converted these kids into teachers, and he was meeting them at the different time in different places. Finally, the author succeeded in learning how to read with the aid of these white children with an exchange of bread that he was offering them. The author was talking to these white kids about his slavery life, and they used to console him that one day he will be free, and that gave him heart.

By this time, the author was twelve years old, and he was always thinking about being slavery for life. He had a book called Columbian Orator and in the book he got some tips on how to the heart of a master by saying smart and impressive things to them. During this time, the author only knew how to read, but he was not aware how to write a word. He got the idea of reading from the ship carpenters in the ship- yards of Durgin and Bailey. By copying at what the ship carpenters were doing, the author was able to join a four letter word for the first time. He was sharing his writing ideas with different white boys whom he knew and by doing this; he was learning different lessons from them. The author was using pavements, board fence and brick walls as copy books where he could do the practice as well as the lump of chalk as a pen. He improved his writing skills in the leftover spaces in the copy- books of his small master. He was copying what the little master had written, and he was able to write the same hand as of the little master. Finally, the author succeeded in learning how to read and write while he was a slave.