Night john is about how african american slaves were treated. The story takes place in texas on a plantatio. Sarney is a child african american slave that sell pinches of tobacco due to her curiosity of reading and writing and a older slave with a history named John teaches her. Johns history is that he has ran away before and lived through it witch is very remarkable. He travled to the north and then came back to teach others how to read and write. The owners would destroy people that ran away, this cause Mamey to give up and come to relize she is stuck there as her life.
Malcolm X, he was a black boy who was a akward and tall african american. He liked basketball alot but lacked talent. Malcom began to fight at age 13. Malcolms brother was a good fighter and it inspired him to fight. Malcom got beat bad alot so that was over with. He then got in trouble in school because of putting a thumbtack on the teachers chair. They to ld him he was going to reform school. He relized there in a large segragated community anything was possible.
The Great debators is like night john but different from night john because the time periods, but the r simular in the treatment of slaves. The movie was about young debators that tried out for the debate club nd the eventually ad to fight and work to debate a white colldge and they didnt let them go in the colledge to debate and it relates to racism to both stories.
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