What effect does the word snatch have on the reader?
She finally became even more violent in her opposition
than her husband himself. She was not satisfied with
simply doing as well as he had commanded; she seemed
anxious to do better. Nothing seemed to make her more
angry than to see me with a newspaper. She seemed to
think that here lay the danger. I have had her rush at me
with a face made all up of fury, and snatch from me a
newspaper, in a manner that fully revealed her
apprehension.
O It suggests doing something better.
O It suggests wanting to learn.
O It suggests being upset or desperate.
O It suggests a woman obeying her husband.
Sample Response: Douglass wants you to see the extreme change Mrs. Auld went through. Once she had helped Douglass learn to read. Later, she changed her mind about his education and grew angry and cruel toward him. She forbid him from reading anything. Douglass' message is that slavery had negative effects on everyone who was involved with it.
