Book Report Night John

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The book NightJohn is a novel written by Gary paulsen, a slave named NightJohn becomes friends with another slave named Sarny. John teaches her how to read and write and Sarny gives him tabacco. In slavery you're not supposed to learn how to read or write but that didn't matter to John. John and Sarny looked out for each other and tried to help other people because slavery is wrong and they knew that. Friends look out for you and teach you new things, be kind and treat everyone the way you want to be treated.

For here on, Sarny was a kind girl but lived a hard life she didn't let that affect her though. Sarny was a slave and couldn't live with her birth mom because where Sarny came from people would take the children's mother known as “breeders” and send them away from their family so they could live with someone else and become Field hands. Sarny has gotten taught how to read and write by this guy named John. John is an escaped slave that goes around …show more content…

John tried escaping slavery before so he got whipped a lot but John is a strong guy and lived through it. All though John has gotten hurt so many times he had still done reckless things such as teaching Sarny how to read and write because he knew that there was a punishment for that (page 54). Sarny was a young girl with an opened mind and she just wanted to learn but being slave it was hard for her to do that.

Lastly, in the book NightJohn the quote “ School-we got to go to school. Don't you want to learn the rest of the letters?” is saying that John wants to be able to teach Sarny how to read and write. John is being a good friend because he knows the punishment he will get for teaching Sarny but he wants to help her out. Why make other people your slaves when they're human as well? Friends look out for you and teach you new things, be kind and treat everyone the way you want to be

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