Nightjohn was a book about a slave girl living in a hut on a plantation. At first, sonya was describing her life living on the plantation and how rough she had it with the beatings and the mal nutrition. Then a new guy named Nightjohn came to living on the plantation, and sonya described how terrible skin he had from whippings and dogs. Throughout the book, sonya would trade nightjohn some tabacco in exchange for a letter of the alphabet. Each letter she got, made her more excited when it came to learning how to read and write. As the story went on, people living in sonyas hut would be beaten and even killed and she would describe the pain they went through, and when her mom found out that nightjohn had been teaching her letters, she got really mad because black people in her time were not supposed to know that. so she asked what he was doing here and he explained how he was free in the north for a while and finally came back to the south so he could go to different plantations and teach them how to read and write.
Malcom X was about a awkward black boy that grew up in michigan. In the first part of the book, malcom had been giving up on himself saying that he was jealous of his brother in boxing and he was too awkward to box. So he decided to act out for attention, and as that plan went south, his parents sent him to a reform school in Alma michigan where he felt that he could really fit in. even though he was one of two black people there, he was top of the class in most to all of classes and was even elected as the class president. Then finally when his teacher asked him what he wanted to be, he said that he wanted to be a lawyer. This didnt sit well with the teacher and his teacher explained that he should set realistic goals for himself that dont have being black as a restriction. I think that if his teacher had supported his decision in becoming a lawyer, he would hae been successful and became a good lawyer.
One way the the Great Debaters was like the book Nightjohn was that both the main characters had seen a negroe being lynched. In the movie, they were driving through texas on their way to a debate when they drove past a negroe that had been tied up and burned at the stake. In the book it had happened more often and sonya saw a young women get whipped while chained to a wall. one way that the two are different is that in the movie, they lived free in the northern part of the US. On the otherhand, sonya lived on a plantation somewhere in the southern part of the US where she wasnt free. One thing similar about the movie and Malcom X is that both samantha and Malcom wanted to be lawyers, but this was also the one contrast. This is because samantha brooks actually became a lawyer and malcom didnt.
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