Well...

Though this book is very powerful, I personally do not find the exact style of writing appealing. It is very effective in giving the facts, telling the stories straight up, but I struggled with the assignment of finding a passage that really appealed to my emotions. However, I came up with a little part that I really actually did enjoy.

"She sat down, quivering in every limb. I saw that constable class leader become crimson in the face with suppressed laughter, while he held up his handkerchief, that those who were weeping for the poor woman's calamity might not see his merriment." (Page 61)

In this passage, Jacobs still sticks to her matter-of-fact tone, and narrates a story that would cause every last one of us to start a fight if we had been in the woman's shoes. By using a somewhat 'detached' voice, she brings to the story a sense of regularity, that this was not out of the ordinary. Though nobody was physically harmed, nobody died, this small story on the grand scale of things is one of the things that really anchors the reader into the pain and suffering of the slaves in every aspect of their lives. The reader is now able to see that the slaves could not even worship without being looked down upon, could not even take comfort in some kind of unbiased higher power.