Nightjohn

Nightjohn was a man who knew he would get into trouble for teaching other slaves how to read and write. When I think of nightjohn I think of all of my teachers and how they teach me the most amazing things. Wow they taught me how to read, write, and do math equations. He got caught teaching the little girl the letters. His punishment for that was that he had gotten his finger chopped off they were going to beat him they caught it off instead. Walker was the owner of the slaves, he would…

Trust in Others Words In order to do the big things in life, you have to have trust. Without trust you will never have close friends or even be close to your family. In the book Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen, readers come to realize that it is important to trust your friends and family. First, Sarny had to trust what the older people were telling her when she wrote things in the dirt. She says “I wrote them down in the dirt with a stick and Mammy gave me a smack on the back of my head that…

In NightJohn by Gary Paulsen, John, Sarny, and Mammy are all slaves, and live difficult lives, while trying to expand the practice of reading. With barely anything John teaches slaves to read and write. Through everything he’s been through, being free, but came back to teach which is a vast risk, getting his toes cut off, and escaping the second time, then come back to create a school, the reader can tell that Gary Paulsen wanted the theme of this book to be, in order to help more than just…

1. The story of Nightjohn reveals insight into cruel truths in American history as it follows the encounters of a 12-year-old slave young lady (Sarny) in the 1850s. Sarny uncovered the abuse suffered by her people on the plantation. Sarny knows the consequence for learning how to read and write, but agrees to learn it from Night John( new slave) who offers to teach her the alphabet. John says that figuring out how to read is freedom since slavery is limited by laws and deeds which the slaves…

NightJohn, a story written by Gary Paulsen, expresses the story of Waller, the master, who owns slaves to work on the fields and take on other duties. To keep things in order he will punish other slaves for breaking a rule.This will cause other slaves to feel frightened and make them not disobey anymore. The slaves wouldn’t follow the rules if they knew they wouldn't get punished so it’s very important to the slave owners to punish their slaves when they misbehave. In the story, there are…

stimuli to create the final performance, in which we presented to friends at school. These stimuli included: a sketch of an old lady, photographs of situations including loss, happiness and war, a piece of music, a poem and an extract from the story ‘NightJohn’. In my opinion, it is good to have a range of different stimuli as starting points due to the fact that it can expand other ideas about the project that students may have, and they also help to provide the basic structure for a piece of…