1) In the story NightJohn the main charachters were slaves that lived down south on a plantation and they grow and picked cotten for there socalled owner of them. The story is told from the point of veiw of a liitle girl by the name of Sarny. in the story sarny talkes about the hard life on the plantation how the master wont let them pray or even touch money. she talks about the whay they are treated by the owneres including the head mistress Margret and her sister Alaine. in the story a man is brought as a nother slave to work on the plantation and Sarny makes freinds with this man, the man goes by the name of John and Sarney describes him as a tall man with scares and bruses on his back and his armes. well anyway John helpes sarny to esacape from the plantation so that she can be free, which means no mor praying in the kettle like her grandmaother did she would sit in the corner at noght and pray quietly with a kettle over her head and hope that know one would hear her praying.
2) the story Mascot is a biography about a civil rights leader malcom x. he had a tough life as a boy with a none stable famly and the disciminaton of him and everyone else like him. just becaues of his color he was what was called a colored man, a negro and he was discriminated aginst just for the color of his skine somthing he had no cntroll over he could not help being what he was. as a young man he started to become more involved with th civil rights movment as it only grew worse as he grew older he was one of the few african americans to step up and reach out publicly that the discrimination of someone just becaus of ther color is wrong.
3) The movie the great debaters was a movie about some of the strugals that were face during the time of the civil rights movement. the movie told the story of three african american student Henry Lowe, Samantha Booke, and James Farmer Jr. these three students were on ta debating team for willy college a all african american college they went on wining and eventuly got exeped to debate aginst the harvard universety debating team and they won a small little colloge in texas became victores over a white college harverd university. the movie compared to the other two stories Nightjohn and Mascot show simulateties. first all of the stories are toled from the point of veiw off an african american durin the times of great discrimination. in the story mascot hte times of the events are closer to gether taking place during the civil rights movment. the story are told about the small actions that were made to stop the discrimination, in mascot he becomes a hevaly involved civilrights leader and in the movie the great debaters the kids move to becomeoming an undefeted team so that they can be the first to callenege a all white college and they meet there goal and end up coming out with a grat victory and wining the debate.
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