Z1-NightJohn+Journal

Dear Diary 11/30 Chapter 1 Well I guess I'm out in the fields again getting the eggs from the chickens. This is all I do now that I am a slave. I have a mom that is actually not my real mom I was sold to someone that would not buy me to so that I could stay with my mom I miss her a lot and I hope one day that I can leave this place. Dear Diary 12/1 Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 Well today we have a new slave that came to us today his name is Night John he is a mess I can't believe what they did to him this is terrible anyways i am doing what I have to do all the time again. I have to chew tobacco to spit on the bugs it is really gross! Dear Diary 12/2 Chapter 3 continuing and Chapter 4 Today my new friend John asked me for some chew and he that we can trade something and I said what you got to trade and he said I got letters to trade and that is how I learned to read and write and learned the alphabet! I like to learn about the letters I thought that it would be really hard but now that I've started it is fun!!! Dear Diary 12/3 Chapter 4 Well for me today was a gruesome day because we have to sit and watch people get whipped real bad and I don't really like at all.Also today I was taught a new letter called "B" and it is pretty cool and John was telling us about how he had got away but then had came back to teach reading and writing and I thought that was good in a way and bad in another way to. I think that it is fun and I wish that it was okay for us to read and write. Dear Diary 12/6 Chapter 5 Today I had to see some gross stuff again because nobody at first would tell the truth about learning to read and write. We had to watch John get a toe cut off on both of his feet John I guess didn't seem like he was feeling at all.And mammy had to stand in the sun all day until night came. Instead of just only whipping her he hooked her up to the carriage and made him pull her and wanted her to go faster so he kept whipping her. My opinion is that I think that Waller is just a big stupid meany because all he likes to do is see people in pain and I would like to do something about that! Dear Diary 12/7 Chapter 6- the End Today John had ran away he is very smart to rub rawhide on his shoes so if the dogs come searching for him they will lose track of where he is. John told me that we should run away for the night to "School" that is in a ditch it is really cool because there are other kids that are in the class that John and me teach it is really fun! I now know a lot of letters now that I teach to the kids that are in the class John has it is cool.This is cool for me now to teach people how to read and write.