Nightjohn was a good book. It was about slaves that worked in a cotton field and how they were beat if they tried to learn how to read or write or even run away. In this book the slave owners name was Old Waller and he was a very mean slave owner and liked to beat the slaves. The people who tried to run away were all either severely beaten or killed. The first one was Jim and he was going to see his girlfriend and when he was sneaking back they fetched the dogs on him and he was killed. The second guy that tried to run away was also killed. His name was Pawley and he died because they sicked the dogs on him and then Old Waller cut the back of his feet so he couldn't run but he eventually bled out. The third one never died but she was always beaten and the dogs were even sicked on her. She was also used as breeding bate and after awhile it took a mental tole on her. The there was a guy named Nightjohn who ran off to the north but came back to teach slaves how to read and write. He started teaching Sarny how to read and her grandmother wasn't oik with it and tried to stop him but after he explained to her she was fine with it and he kept on teaching her letters. This book showed how slaves were treated bad and unfairly.
Mascot was about Malcolm x and how he was sent to a reform school and he lived with a "foster" like family. He was treated very well their and went to a school where he fit in and he later on became class president. He stated that he tried so hard to act white and wanted to be like the other kids. Every weekend he would go back home to Lansing where he got to see his real family. His brother was a really good boxer and so Malcolm tried to be one but when he fought a kid named Bill Peterson he knocked him out. So Malcolm went back to the gym and he trained really hard so that he could go back and beat Bill Peterson. When he went back to fight him this time he had to fight Bill in his own town and once again Malcolm was knocked clean out. The family he stayed with while he went to reform school was the Swerlin's. He had also stayed with the Lyon's. He also had to get a job when he was there so he worked in a restaurant where he cleaned dishes for cash. The Statemen's name that took him to this reform school was Mr. Maynard Allen. Malcolm liked this guy but he said on some days and didn't. This is what this book was about.
There were a lot of similarities between the books and the movie. The first thing that was the same about the book and Nightjohn is that in these to stories it showed how black people were treated bad back in the day because in the story they were beat on a farm and in the movie these white people made the dad pay more for the pig than it was worth and they also made him put it in their truck. Also in the movie they had lynched a black person which the debaters had to look at. A similarity between "Mascot" and the movie was how they both took place in Texas. Another similarity is that the debaters debated about how black people were treated unfairly like Malcolm x did through the story. Malcolm wanted to become a lawyer but he said he couldn't because there were no black lawyer's in Lansing. This relates to "Mascot" because Henry Lowe said that he became a lawyer in the movie. A difference in the three was how the professor in the movie was a communist and he was the leader of a white and black union. They never had that in the stories. Another difference would be how neither of the "Mascot" or the movie took place on a plantation or how the black people were beaten during the story. Also in "Nightjohn" they had a guy who came back who taught reading and writing to the other slaves while in the other book and movie they never were slaves and they already knew how to read and write. This was the similarities and differences between the books and the movie.
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
my weekend
So this week in school we read a couple different stories and I didn't think they were really that interesting. They were about slavery and one of them was about Malcom X and I didn't like the story but when we started watching the movie it's been pretty good so far. Then this weekend I had a pretty fun time. I went down to my sister's house in Hocking County where we went hunting. When I first got their on Saturday we watched the Buckeyes play an intense game against the Iowa Hawkeyes but I was happy with the end result of the game because we ended up winning. I was also happy because I got to watch Michigan lose again. I can't wait for the game next week when OSU beats Michigan. It should be pretty fun. Then after the game we sat around and talked for awhile and watched some more football. I went to bed around one o'clock because I stayed up with my sister and my cousin and we played the board game sorry. After that I went to bed and got up early because we went out and went hunting. When we went out me and my brother both shot two squirrels. After that we came back up to Gahanna and went to my grandma and grandpa's house at one. While I was their I watched my team the Browns play and we should of won the game but we fell short. Then I watched the rest of the Bengals game and watched them lose to the Buffalo Bills who are terrible this year. That was my weekend.
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Sunday, November 14, 2010
My weekend
This weekend I had a lot of fun. On Friday after school I went out to my dads house and I brought my xbox so that I could play it later it on at night. It was so nice out that I didn't need a jacket when I went riding and me and my brother and his friend went out riding for a couple hours. I rode my dirt bike while my brother and his friend rode out four wheeler. After it got dark out we went inside and watched some t.v. and ordered some pizza. After we ate we went up to my room and I hooked up my xbox and we played my new game I got Call Of Duty: Black Ops. Then we decided to play Fifa soccer for a little and me and his friend played a couple games and I won. After that I went to bed. When I got up the next morning me and my brother went with my sister down to he boyfriend's parents house where we went hunting. When we went out the first time on Saturday we didn't see anything and so we went back up to the house and watched the Buckeyes win again. Then we watched her boyfriend's Dad's team play which was the Florida Gators and they lost. After that we went to bed and got up on Sunday at 6:30 to go out early and get set up in the woods before the animals started coming out. I killed a squirrel and two birds and my brother killed the same thing. Then we came back up here and I went to my grandparents house where we watched the Browns play and come back on the Jets and go into overtime and lose with 26 seconds left. We also watched the Bengals lose their seventh game of the year. This was my weekend.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Sunday, November 7, 2010
My weekend
This weekend was pretty fun. I went to my dads house and rode my dirt bike for the whole day. We did new tricks and it was overall pretty fun. I tried a trick and bruised my right foot pretty bad but it was still fun. Then on saturday I got up around 11:00 o'clock and went and got a shower then I went up to my friends house and got him and we went back out to the jumps. We stayed out there for a couple hours and then I went back home and watched some college football even though Ohio State wasnt playing this weekend. I saw that Michigan went into like 3 overtimes with Illinois before they finally won by 2 points. Michigan does not have a very good defense because they gave up 65 points in the whole game but they still won. I didnt get to see if Oregon or Auburn won because I was out riding with my friends again. After it got dark out we went up to my friends house and turned his porch lights on and threw our throwing knives we just got from the store. It was pretty fun. Then on Sunday I went to my grandparents house like every weekend and I watched my Browns win again. They beat the Patriots and they were 6-1. The Browns have a pretty good team now and they have some potential. Well that was my weekend.
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