Book Report

Title: Nigh John
Author: Gary Paulsen
Pages: 92
Characters: Protagonists: Sarny, Nigh John, Antagonist: Clel Waller
Setting: In a farm

Sarny is a little girl around ten and twelve years old that is slave in a farm and people in the farm think that she is dumb because she is quiet. However she just look what happen around her and learn things from that.

Night John is a slave that arrive to the farm were Sarny was he doesn’t like to follow rules from their owners also he is very black he has a very dark skin.

Clel Waller is a white man that buys slaves also he is a very cruel person that is always carrying with a gun and dogs also with a whip that uses against the slaves.

Plot: Back in the 1850s when slaves were not well treaty and force to work there was a little girl name Sarny who was raised by mommy who’s real name was Delie they were both slave in a farm in the southern United States. The house owner was a white man called Clel Waller who was a very cruel person.

Rising action: Is when Sarny saw letters in bag and she stared to copy it and then when they brought Night John to the farm she asked him to teach her to write.

Climax: Is when Sarny stared to learn how to write and while it happen was discovered by Clel Waller and took mommy and wiped her to make her say who had teach Sarny to write and after while he was wiping her Night John stepped up front and say that he was the one that had teach Sarny to read and write.

Falling action: Is when Night John escape from the farm and after that he went for Sarny to the plantations and take her to the school it wasn’t a real school as today but he had a secret place were he took the children from around the farm and take them every night to teach them how to read and write.

Theme: Education is very important

It was in my school when I was in 6 grade that some of the teachers had some activities and one of them include plantation. We had to clean the area were we had to grow different types of vegetables. I got to say that it was hard even though we only use to work on it around an hour but after we grew them each student will take a part or some vegetables home.