Description acceptable. In John Updike’s Rabbit Redux, Rabbit reads this literary scene aloud while Skeeter ejaculates on his couch. This scene is described as an “ideal speech situation” in a chapter titled for “Antinomies of Modernity” by Paul Gilroy, who reads it as a reworking of the German idealist thought that Ottilie Assing introduced to the author. Prior to this scene, Sandy gives the narrator a “root” that will ward off harm if it’s kept on the right side of his body. In Chapter X (“ten”) of a book, this scene is preceded by the line, “You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.” This scene unfolds over two hours in a horse stable, and results in a sadistic man nicknamed “the snake” never harming the protagonist again. For 10 points, identify this climactic scene from Frederick Douglass’s autobiographies, in which he physically bests the man he’s been leased to. ■END■
ANSWER: Frederick Douglass’s fight with Edward Covey [accept battle or struggle or synonyms in place of “fight”; accept Mr. Covey, Edward, or descriptions like the slave-breaker, farmer, farm-renter, boss, or master in place of “Edward Covey”] (Paul Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic compares the scene to Hegel’s master-slave dialectic.)
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