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Frances Harper's short story, "The Two Offers," makes use of ellipses in order to eliminate certain parts of the sequence of events in the story. This is so that the reader is forced to fill in the gaps of the narrative all by themselves. In doing so, Harper is utilizing her technique of persuading her audience--which consists primarily of sympathetic readers--to lay support on the abolition of slavery as well as the women's rights movement. One such excerpt in which Harper makes use of ellipses is the following: "In her the down-trodden slave found an earnest advocate; the flying fugitive remembered her kindness as he stepped cautiously through our Republic, to gain his freedom in a monarchial land, having broken the chains on which the rust of centuries had gathered." In this paragraph, the reader does not know that Janette is in support of abolitionism. In leaving out her beliefs, the reader connects Janette to the women's rights movement in their minds so that, by the end of the paragraph, the reader has now connected both abolitionism to women's rights.
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