1. Activity 4
“Ain’t I a Woman?”

2. Why do you think the speaker uses the word “children”?
She wants the audience to view her as a wise mother figure.
She has wisdom and knowledge based on her experiences

3. Describe the speaker’s attitude
Truth’s attitude is one of outrage

4. What do we understand about her character and her life?
Truth is physically strong and capable of great endurance
Evidence - she doesn’t need to be “lifted over ditches.
Evidence – She suffered by not having enough food to eat.

5. What else do we learn about Sojourner’s Truth in this paragraph?
Mother figure is reinforced by having 13 children cruelly taken from her.
(The editor of the speech adjusted the number for emotional appeal.)
Her call to Jesus shows her pain and isolation and her spirituality.

6. What does Truth’s metaphor about the “cup” reveal about her character?
Appeals to the audience’s sense of fairness
She values fair play and justice.

7. What connection between “intellect” and civil rights is Sojourner Truth rejecting?
Just because you have a lot, you shouldn’t deny respect and freedom to others.

8. How does Sojourner Truth use the religious reference to Christ to counter the argument made by the “little man in black”?
Skip this one.

9. Emphasize that human man was not a part of it.
What is the effect of Truth’s repetition of “Where did your Christ come from?”
Emphasize that human man was not a part of it.

10. Reinforces her spirituality
What do the religious reference and the question reveal about Truth’s character?
Reinforces her spirituality

11. Ate from the forbidden Tree of Knowledge
Who is the “first woman God ever made” and how did she turn the world “upside down”?
Refers to Eve
Ate from the forbidden Tree of Knowledge

12. She has experienced and survived much
What is the effect of Truth’s description of herself as “old Sojourner”?
She has experienced and survived much
Makes her credible and sympathetic

13. TEST TOMORROW ON THIS PACKET OF “AIN’T I A WOMAN?”
DUE TOMORROW
TEST TOMORROW ON THIS PACKET OF “AIN’T I A WOMAN?”
PARAGRAPH 1 OF ESSAY DUE TOMORROW