Z1-+NightJohn+Journal

CHAPTER 1

My name is Sarny Waller, i am twelve years old and i am writing in my journal today about a story on nightjohn and this story also includes me in some way's. i am writing on how we got here, some people say it was because of clel waller, he wants us to call him "master" but instead i call his clel waller. Then their are others who say that God brought us here, to be honest i don't know who it was who brought me here. To tell you a little about me, I will start off with i am twelve years old i am not with my real mother because no matter if you are sold or not, no "slave" is ever going to live with their real mother. so yes, this means i am a slave.

CHAPTER 2

Today was a interesting day for me. Well at some points it was. The least of my favorite thing that happen to day was when i had to put tobacco in my mouth and chew it and then spit it on the plants to kill the bugs. But the second thing that happen today that i thought was interesting was when i over heard some ladies talking about how their upset because clel is spending all the money on the slaves. But the most interesting thing that happen today was when master brought in a new slave named night john. Night John had wiping scares on his back and some going down his legs. He did not have any clothes on, and when he got they clel sent him straight to work. with no water. i thought that was mien, but not for clel. I think that Night John is a disobedient slave because of all the scares.

CHAPTER 3

Today i feel like talking about my daily schedule. First thing in the morning i go work in the fields, then i work in the garden, next i work in the quitters, and after all my work is done i go eat supper. Next i want to talk about how me and NightJohn were talking and he saw me with tobacco and wanted to trade letters for my tobacco. But before he told me he had knowledge to trade i told him no because of the way he came into this place. With nothing. After he had told me what he actually had to trade i thought about it for a minute and asked him what letters were and why would they be useful to me. After he told me i decided to trade him a pinch of the tobacco if he would trade me the letter A.

CHAPTER 4 Today Alice got taken to the spring house and she got whipped and beaten and after he had stopped he pored salt on the cuts to make it burn even worse. That night when John came to my cabin he taught me the letter B. But when mammy came in he looked at her eminently and said "this is not what it looks like." I am teaching her to read. Mammy said that's exactly what i thought you were doing. Why in the world you teach her that. You know that the people would cut her thumbs off and all this stuff she was saying to him kinda got me to worrying. But she let it go and after she could down her looked at me and said now tomorrow i will teach you the letter C.

CHAPTER 5 Today I was admiring the letters i had learned from John. And while i was doing so i got caught.It was the worse way to get caught to. I was caught by Waller. It was horrible. He picked me up and shook me until i told him how i learned to read. I kept saying i didn't know nothing about reading. But he didn't believe me. So he dropped me and i ran to mammy, but that was not smart, because he followed me and took mammy to the spring house and hooked her to the chains and left her their until all the slaves were watching. When everyone was watching he yanked her cloths of and took her to the wagon and told her he was in the mood for a ride. so she tried as hard as she could to pull him until John came up and said it wasn't her fault. It was his. He sent two slaves to go get the stump and a hammer and told them to put John's foot on it. When his foot was set on the stump he cut off a toe. Then he switched feet and cut off another toe, but this time it didn't come off so easily. it was hanging their by a piece of skin. so they cut it again. It was the worse thing i have ever seen.

CHAPTER 6, 7, WORDS Today after NightJohn gets punished he decides to run away and starts a school. He escapes by rubbing lard thick on the bottom of his shoes to throw off the smell of the dogs. While he is gone i go over the words that he taught me but this time i am sure to be careful to not get caught by waller. Once he is gone he comes back to get me and says he started a school underground. After we got there it was dark until these other slaves light the lanterns. I think that the author included the chapter "words" because she wanted the readers to know that NightJohn didn't get caught for his school and he carries on.