BOOK REPORT:

TITLE OF THE BOOK: Night John
AUTHOR: Gary Paulsen
NUMBER OF PAGES: 92
CHARACTERS: Sarny, Night John. Mammy, and Clel Waller.

SARNY & NIGHT JOHN PROTAGONIST: A young girl of twelve years old who doesn't know how to read or count since when she was little never got an education people thinks "she's dumb because she is quiet, don't make noise and go to twattering all the time." But in reality she listen all the time and learn things. Moreover, as she is interesting in learning takes the risk to learn. On the other hand, night John who was a slave and escaped freedom but came back to teach reading using the strategy of the first letters of the alphabet knowing that the penalty for reading was torture.

MAMMY: Is a person who takes care of the young children's so "when they're born babies go to wet nurse and in summer she cuts a notch on the stick for each of the girls so as to know when it will come time for the troubles and then the breeding".

CLEL WALLER ANTAGONIST: Pale white maggot ugly and smell his white ugliness stink of bad sweat, whiskey, smoke and fat food. He wants slaves to call him "master", got dogs , whip and a gun so he could cause bad hurt.

SETTING: A farm house

THEME: Education is very important.

A PLOT SUMMARY: Night John travel to the Waller plantation and meet a girl of twelve years old named Sarny, a slave whose mother was sold away when she was four. Sarny first sees Night john when he is brought to the plantation with a rope around his neck, his body covered with scars from many beatings by dogs . Sarny was pulling to Night john when she learns that he had escaped North to freedom, only to voluntarily return to the South. Night john had a mission to teach slaves how to read and write. He believes knowledge was the key to helping slaves by using the alphabet. Sarny was decided to take the risk, even knowing that the penalty for reading was torture or kill.

FIVE WORDS I LEARNED:


SHACKLE: A metal link which can be open and closed for joining chain to anchor.

• Slaves were treated like animals with a shackle on their neck.
  

PALLET: A hand tool with a flat blade used by potters for mixing and shaping clay.

• Slaves had to eat their food with pallets.
  

BREEDING: Conservation status refers to the breeding population of the species in the nation or state/province.

• My grandmother was a breeding women.
  

SHACK: Is a type of small house that is in disrepair.

• Poor people use to leave in shack houses.
  

GRIEF: The normal, natural and necessary inner experience of loss.

• Masters made slaves felt grief.

WRITE ABOUT A TIME YOU SACRIFICED SOMETHING FOR SOMEONE INCLUDE YOUR REASONING AND FEELINGS.

When my older sister was in high school she needed to pass a final test so she could graduate on time with a special license for airframe mechanic of aviation but needed someone who could help her to review her notes and asked her questions about the topic. So I decided to stay with her until five in the morning going over every step of her reviews notes. In addiction, at the end it was very useful since, she passed her test with a good grade and got her license so I feel good because, I helped her to change her life.

PRETEND THAT YOU ARE EITHER SARNY OR NIGHT JOHN WRITE A JOURNAL ENTRY ABOUT A DAY YOU HAD IN THE PLANTATION.

One day I decided to run away from slavery and reached freedom but
I put my self in the same position as the others slaves and I could not resist so I decided to go back and change a life a another slave like me risking my self deciding to teach the alphabet since when I was little the masters use to speak at the back of my house in which my room was next to and each day I learned a new word connecting all them together.