![]() ![]() Nightjohn: Characters The title character is Nightjohn, who’s a slave who managed to escape to the North and freedom but returned to the South to teach reading and writing to slaves. Nightjohn is a slave who is brought to the Waller plantation. ![]() In reality, however, Sarny is very intelligent, and learns how to read very quickly. ![]() She is twelve, and people think she is “dumb”, because she has “a stuck tongue”, and when she was born she “come out wrong…all backwards and twixt-and-twinst”. Based on an actual incident, Gary Paulsen tells about a young slave girl, Sarny, who it taught to read by another slave, Nightjohn. Nightjohn is a story that is set in the south during the time of slavery. How does Sarny know she is 12 years old? She uses a stick with notches cut into it to see her age. Set in the 1850s, Gary Paulsen’s groundbreaking new novel is unlike anything else the award-winning author has written. Nightjohn/Characters How old is Nightjohn in the book?įrom the Back Cover And twelve-year-old Sarny is willing to take the risk to learn.
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