Nightjohn Summary

Nightjohn was a very short, but informative and immersive story. It informed us on how hard and terrible being stuck in slavery was. Along with, somehow amazingly doing it using so many small and not very descriptive words or sentences. It did have many different themes, but the ones I chose to write on were: prejudice, freedom, and leadership.

No, denying the rights of any people is not okay and I don’t see how anyone ever thought slavery was okay, much less the right thing to do. People always think that one person deserves less or someone else deserves more, but that’s not true, because we’re all equals. My examples only sort of relate to me, but the first is I have some friends of other races that used to not want to be friends with any white people, because of things white people …show more content…
The slave owners viewed it as something to use to keep the slaves below them and keep the slaves in line. An example could be when I see or know people who have abused their freedoms by trying to do things such as, drink under-age, harm other people, and other things. Or they don’t appreciate things such as, knowing how to read and write by saying that they don’t like to or it’s not important.

To be effective in leadership it takes a proper amount of trust and discipline, you must trust them to be truthful and responsible individuals. Along with, when they don’t or aren’t you must discipline them in a proper manner. Waller could be considered one, but a worse one (in my opinion), because he was the slaves’ owner, so he could tell them what to do and discipline them, also he was a father and could do the same for his children. Some students at school could be considered leaders like the different types of aides, because they’re allowed to tell other students what to do in special