I Pledge Allegiance Character Analysis

Has a hint ever been directed your way, but was not realized until it was almost too late? Well in Elijah of Buxton, Elijah finds out that an adult slave whom he rescues is trying to hint to him to take her child back to Buxton with him. Also, in I Pledge Allegiance, Morris and his three best friends all go to the Vietnam War because one of them gets drafted. In questioning why the slave wants her child to go to Buxton, connecting with Morris about war and his friends, and evaluating the difference in point of views of Morris and his mother, you will become more familiar with the characters in these books. Why did the slave want to send her child to Buxton with Elijah? One reason could be that she is a very benevolent person who wants her child to be spared of the beating that awaits them when they return. The mother knows when they return to Kentucky, she and all the other slaves are going to get beaten. She also knows they will be forced to do extra work after they are beaten, so they can pick up the slack they missed while they were trying to

There is a major discrepancy in the way that his mom thinks people are looking at Morris and the way that Morris knows people are looking at him. His mom believes that people are looking at him and wishing they could be him, as well as, being thankful that Morris has served his country. His mother was so proud of Morris that she was listing off movies that she thought could be about them. On the other hand, Morris knows that nobody is looking at him, and nobody cares that he served his country. He was very annoyed by the way his mom thought people looked at them: “Those movies are so unbelievably stupid, Ma”(Lynch 125). Overall, there is a major difference in the way Morris and his mom feel about how others value his military