![]() ![]() Sarny has been warned of the dangers of learning to read, and knows the terrible punishments are not empty threats but realities still, Nightjohn easily persuades her to learn-which seems more plausible than Sarny's careless writing of letters with her toe in the dirt, so that Waller catches her. Caught, he arrives as a slave driven by the viciously cruel master, Clel Waller. Nightjohn has escaped more than once, but courageously returns to share his knowledge with those who have no way of knowing the world beyond their plantation. Sarny, young enough not to have experienced the rape that will come inexorably with child- bearing age, tells how she learned to read, and at what cost. A searing picture of slavery, sometime in the 19th century at an unspecified place in the South. ![]()
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