[w]hen i met with any boy who i knew could write, i would tell him i could write as well as he. the next word would be, "i don't believe you. let me see you try it." i would then make the letters which i had been so fortunate as to learn, and ask him to beat that. in this way i got a good many lessons in writing, which it is quite possible i should never have gotten in any other way.

—frederick douglass

this example could be used to demonstrate something about the narrator.

choose the best answer.

it can demonstrate his lack of trust.
it can demonstrate his motivation.
it can demonstrate why he hated to write.