Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

One thing that amazes me about the narrative Incidents in the Life Of a Slave Girl. Is Jacob's inability or negligence to expressing any emotion or feeling about incidents in the book. She says everything in the same manner which makes it seem as if it's not really anything to be emotional about. For example, on page 17, when Jacobs walks in the house with a new pair of shoes, her master says, "take them off and if you ever put htem on again, ill throw them into the fire." She just takes them off and when she is sent on an errand in the snow without her new shoes, she doesn't cry or whine at all. Another example is on page 40, when she back talks to her master, it states, "he sprang upon me like a tiger and gave me a stunning blow." When she is hit she simply recovers easily and doesn't write of how painful the blow was to her. I think the reason she tries to limit her emotion in this narrative is to keep it just a book of incidents that happened to her and not to add how she feels about it to compromise how the reader responds to it. In conclusion, her excluding of emotion makes the book fantastic and I look forward to the end