Characters
The character that is narrating the story.
Who is Sarny?
Nightjohn is on a lead, naked.
What is Nightjohn coming to the plantation?
Gets/wants it from Sarny.
What is tobacco?
The main job for adult male slaves.
What is working in the fields/field work?
The main male character.
Who is Nightjohn?
Sarny's non-birthing mammy who takes care of all the kids.
Who is Delie? (or who is Old Delie?)
Delie hold up Sarny when she is young so she can see.
What is Sarny's birth mom leaving?
The punishment for teaching Sarny letters and words.
What is getting your two middle toes cut off?
Happens when you do something wrong.
What is getting whipped?
The plantation owner.
Who is Old Clel?
The girl who was forced to be a breeder and then got cut, whipped, bitten by the dogs after running away.
Who is Alice?
Nightjohn comes back and takes Sarny somewhere.
What is Sarny going to school?
Who Nightjohn like likes.
Who is Old Delie/Delie?
The main job for adult female slaves.
What are breeders?
Sarny's work.
Tending to the flower beds, collecting chicken eggs, taking care of the little ones, or helping around the house?
The "sister" of the misses complaining about how much Nightjohn cost.
Who is Alaine?
Sarny is really, really upset.
What is Nightjohn leaving the plantation?
The letters he taught Sarny.
What are A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, and J?
Happens when you run.
What is dogs chasing/biting/getting you?
Alice's thinking is off, and she stops talking, and she starts wandering because of it.
What is Alice being forced into the breeding room/become a breeder?
The man who runs and then gets caught by the dogs and left to hang in a tree.
Who is Jim?
Sarny gives Nigthjohn tobacco.
What is Nightjohn teaching Sarny how to read/write?
Nightjohn brings it to the school.
What is a catalog?
Food slaves get for meals.
What are cornbread, buttermilk, and maybe pig skin/fat?
Nigthjohns escape plan.
What is making shoes out of pig skin, lard, an pepper?