Witness Argumentative Essay

Witness Argument Imagine living in a town where you and your family were the only ones in this community that were not welcome. That is how Leanora Sutter and her father were in the story “Witness”. They lived in a small town in Vermont, in 1924. They were not welcome because they were African American. Leanora had a big role in this story although she was only twelve. Johnny Reeves is also a big character in the story, but he plays a completely different role, he is a pastor for the Ku Klux Klan. He preaches a lot of hate and strongly trusts in the Klan and its morals. By the title of the story, “Witness”, you would assume that there would be one designated witness. Between two main characters, Leanora and Johnny Reeves; I believe that Leanora Sutter was more of a witness than Johnny Reeves. I think this because she witnessed the burning of the cross, she saw Esther standing in front of the train and saved her from being hit, and she heard and put up with all of the terrible things the white people would say about her and her father. I’d say that Johnny Reeves was not so much a witness but more of an active character, meaning he was the cause for Leanora witnessing all that she did. Leanora Sutter is a major witness in the story “Witness” by Karen Hesse. For being a young colored girl, living in an all-white community you can imagine the

Johnny wasn’t even a witness at all. Leanora was the main witness in this story. She was just a young girl, who had to grow up too fast. As if it wasn’t hard enough losing her mother at such a young age, but moving to a town where almost every single person was trying to get you to leave, we’d all be different people, some might even become bitter from it. Leanora found ways to overcome her struggles and to stay the girl that she was with the beliefs she