Jacobs Prompt

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is written in the third-person, providing readers with a somewhat "removed" depiction of slavery. Harriet Jacobs, on the other hand, wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in the first person; Jacobs's narrative is thus more personal and more immediate.

In your blog post, please discuss how the narator's point of view (first person vs. third person) influences how you read each text.