Homework

1.Sarny,a very peculiar little girl is a slave just like Mammy when a new man is brought in by Old Waller.John or Nightjohn was your typical slave with cuts, bruises ,and whip marks across his back. One night John was asking for some tobacco ,which sarny had some,they decided to make a trade "letters for tobacco".A few nights later Mammy overhears John teaching sarny a letter and goes off because if Waller(slave owner) finds out they are learning to read or write he will cut off her their thumb or whip them to death.John later explains his story how he escaped but came back for the sole purpose of teaching.Mammy asks why and he simply says so they can write about what they do to them.Mammy turns and lays back down John continues on.

2. Malcolm X was a misunderstood kid from Lansing,Michigan. at 13 he went to a detention home to wait to later go to reform school. He stayed with the sweizens who accepted him and gave him a little freedom. He went to a all black junior high school were he found himself trying to be "white".

3.All three of the stories were based in the days of slavery and/or segregation. Nightjohn was from the actual perspective of a slave as appose to the great debaters and mascot which were more aimed toward civil rights.In both of those stories blacks were constantly segregated against by whites. But all three stories tried to target canceling or letting the public know how blacks were treated.