Why does Douglass reject the pity and sympathy of other abolitionists?

After several failed attempts at escape, Douglass finally left Covey's farm in 1838, first boarding a train to Havre de Grace, Maryland. From there he traveled through Delaware, another slave state, before arriving in New York and the safe house of abolitionist David Ruggles.

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Read Unusual Normality , by Ismael Beah.

What is the author’s point of view on sharing his full identity? Support your answer with evidence that shows how he develops this point of view throughout the text.

He wants to be able to be a child despite being an orphan who fought in a war as a kid, but to do so he must hide his background so people´s perception about him doesn´t change. This is revealed when he claims "if they knew about my background, they would no longer allow me to be a child."

Explanation:

When he explains that some parents were upset about him attending school with their children because of his background, it illustrates how fearful he is of being scrutinized because of his past.

He especially doesn´t want his classmates and new friends to see him as different because of his past. The author illustrates this when he describes being taught to play paintball, having to misfire on purpose to hide his past as a soldier, even pretending having been a hunter as a boy to explain how he got to be so good at paintball so fast.