![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But then after three days of recuperating, John runs, and makes it to freedom. After teaching her 8 letters (A to H), Waller catches Sarny writing in the dirt and punishes John for teaching her by cutting off the toes from each of his feet. So, at night and whenever he has the chance, John begins teaching Sarny the letters of the English alphabet. Twelve-year-old Sarny is willing to learn. He had escaped to the north for freedom, but knowing that the penalty for reading is dismemberment, John still returned to slavery to teach others how to read. Sarny first sees Nightjohn when he is brought to the plantation with a rope around his neck, his body covered in scars. The narrator and protagonist of the story is a young female African-American slave named Sarny. The novel is set on a plantation owned by a man named Waller in the Southern United States in the early 1850s. It was later made into a movie of the same name. It is about southern American slavery shortly before the time of the American Civil War. Nightjohn is a 1993 historical novel book by American author Gary Paulsen. Gary Paulsens Nightjohn, published in 1993, gives middle grade and high school students a realistic depiction of the worst of Southern slave-owners during the time just before the Civil War in. ![]()
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