| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass: Union. 5th. The extension of slavery over Mexico and the entire
South American states.
Sir, these objects are forcibly presented to us in the stern
logic of passing events; in the facts which are and have been
passing around us during the last three years. The country has
been and is now dividing on these grand issues. In their
magnitude, these issues cast all others into the shade, depriving
them of all life and vitality. Old party ties are broken. Like
is finding its like on either side of these great issues, and the
great battle is at hand. For the present, the best
representative of the slavery party in politics is the democratic
My Bondage and My Freedom |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: and began searching the platform, far and near, for those
he had travelled so far to find.
The platform emptied itself. Theron lingered on in
puzzled hesitation, and looked about him. In the whole
immense station, with its acres of tracks and footways,
and its incessantly shifting processions of people,
there was visible nobody else who seemed also in doubt,
or who appeared capable of sympathizing with indecision
in any form. Another train came in, some way over to
the right, and before it had fairly stopped, swarms of
eager men began boiling out of each end of each car,
The Damnation of Theron Ware |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Master Key by L. Frank Baum: "Can you reproduce this scene again?"
"Certainly, sir," answered the boy; "as often as you like."
"Will you remain here while I send for my minister of police? It will
require but a short time."
"Call him up, then. I'm in something of a hurry myself, but now I've
mixed up with this thing I'll see it through."
The President touched a bell and gave an order to his servant. Then
he turned to Rob and said, wonderingly:
"You are a boy!"
"That's true, Mr. President," was the answer; "but an American boy,
you must remember. That makes a big difference, I assure you."
The Master Key |
