The Awakening of the Negro

All in a short period of day, God created many different non-living and living things to be placed on the earth. Amongst the many living creatures he made were two humans. Their names were Adam and Eve. God did not provide them with many rules, but he did give them one very important rule that they should never break. If they did choose to break this one rule, then they would sadly have to be banished from the amazing paradise that God had made especially for them. The single rule that they were not supposed to break was to not eat the fruit from a certain tree. This tree was evil and should never have any encounter with the both of them. There was an evil serpent that always remained on this evil tree. One day, when Eve was searching for something to satisfy her hunger for food, she had walked by the evil tree. Since the serpent was very sly and tricky, he knew that it would talk very little effort to convince Eve to eat a fruit from the tree. So, the serpent got Eve’s attention. It began to tell her how scrumptious the fruit of his tree was. It also told her how it would not only surely fulfill her hunger, but it would also be the best fruit that would ever have the opportunity for her to consume. She ended up eating the fruit, which she was never supposed to let touch her lips, let alone her stomach. After she had eaten this delicious, yet evil fruit, she wanted to give Adam the same opportunity she was given and allow him to eat this amazing fruit. Since Adam was given the time to come to develop a strong relationship with Eve, he took the fruit in hand and ate it without question. Immediately after Adam ate the apple, God had appeared before the both of them and soon banned them from the paradise of which they were born. Since Adam had broken God’s most important rule, he has caused all humans after him to have to not be born into a paradise but a cruel and bitter world. In Booker T. Washington’s “The Awakening of the Negro,” the only thing he could rely on to lessen the harshness of the world was to get an education.
Even though every human is forced to come to terms with the many challenges that this world makes us face, not every human has the same amount or harsh quality of disputes in their lives. In order to show his audience how his quality of youth was not a very pleasant one, he implemented pathos in “The Awakening of the Negro.” He used pathos by being very descriptive. Washington gives specific examples of how badly blacks had to live. If blacks had an education, then they would not be so helpless. “By walking, begging rides, and paying for a portion of the journey on the steam-cars, I finally succeeded in reaching the city of Richmond.” (Washington 1) This sentence yet again describes how poverty, in that time era, is common in a black person’s life, especially one without an education. With an education, black people would be able to solve many things for themselves. They would be able to read and write. Without an education, if a black person needed money, then they had to earn that money on the spot, but with an education, a black person could get a job easily. This job would be received by the presentation of the type of degree that that black person had earned in college. If a hospital was looking for a doctor that they needed to hire, then the black person’s doctorial degree will be the help and proof that the black person needs to prove to the hospital that they are the person they are looking for.
In Booker T. Washington’s “The Awakening of the Negro,” the only thing he could rely on to lessen the harshness of the world was to get an education. Even though Adam threw away our opportunity of living in a true paradise, God still cared enough for us by giving us the opportunity to change our world around for the better through education.