In-Class paragraph on Narrative of the Life

The causes of human suffering in this passage (pages 949 and top of page 950) that we read was that Fredrick messed-up with his assigned task. He was sent out to the woods, on the coldest day of the year, to gather firewood. He was sent out with two unbroken oxen and, like unbroken oxen do, one ran away and tipped over his cart, almost killing him in the process. Later, after breaking the cart on the properties fence Fredrick tells his master what has happened and he is whipped severely for this. However, Fredrick should have have never been given two untamed oxen in the first place. It is rather obvious that his master gave him these particular oxen in an attempt to cause Fredrick to mess-up; which he did, causing him to mess-up his assignment.