A Battle With Mr. Covey

The inner-strengths of a being, does not rise until the strangest situations unlock it. The power within is not released until it knows it suits the situation. In the story, “The Battle with Mr. Covey”, a man by the name of Frederick, has his dignity and respect tested; the unlikeliest of terms brings him to express his inner-self. He begins to feel and intertwine with a being that is almost a whole new person within him. The release in his inner self-confidence and courage brings him to heights he would have never foreseen otherwise.
The self-confidence that flourishes from within Frederick is blossomed through a simple materialistic item. Simple enough in appearance, the item was “…a certain root, which, if I would take some of it with me, carrying it always on my right side, would render it impossible for Mr. Covey, or any other white man, to whip me” (Douglass, 429). The root may appear simple enough, but it was enough to raise-up a spirit of self-confidence ...