Though the rules forbid that a slave should learn that, Sarney and John risk everything to learn and teach one of man's most powerful tactics.
For her, life is the same, until a mysterious black man named John teaches her something new, the ability to read and write. Sarny is a curious, little girl, a slave from birth, who resides in the plantation of Mr.
"Nightjohn" is the tale of a young, female, black slave who learned how to read, and the man who dared break the rules to teach it. But for an enslaved person, the ability to read is very powerful. But some detest that word, considering that reading is boring. Reading - what does it mean to you? Many adore that word, and those people happen to be bookworms. It is a meticulously researched, historically accurate, and artistically crafted portrayal of a grim time in our nation's past, brought to light through the personal history of two unforgettable characters. Set in the 1850s, Gary Paulsen's groundbreaking new novel is unlike anything else the award-winning author has written. And twelve-year-old Sarny is willing to take the risk to learn.
Knowing that the penalty for reading is dismemberment Nightjohn still retumed to slavery to teach others how to read. He had escaped north to freedom, but he came back-came back to teach reading. Sarny, a female slave at the Waller plantation, first sees Nightjohn when he is brought there with a rope around his neck, his body covered in scars. "I didn't know what letters was, not what they meant, but I thought it might be something I wanted to know. That's why they don't want us reading." -Nightjohn We get to wanting and when we get to wanting it's bad for them. "To know things, for us to know things, is bad for them.
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