Civil Rights Paragraphs from stories we read

               The many chapters we read from Nightjohn talks about events occurring and what had been happening through an eye-witness slave girl named Sarny. She briefly describes/explains what life as a slave is like and how things work around the area (in this case, slave plantation). She works a lot as slave and discovers many things throughout these chapters such as what a penny looks like. Then Nightjohn joins in which his wounded back from all the whipping he's received from his boss, Old Waller. He is the plantation owner. And during the nights, he offers an exchange of tobacco for people to learn the letters of the alphabet. Sarny later on accepts his offer and Nightjohn teaches her to say the letter "A." Sarny's mother, Mammy, later finds out what Nightjohn has been doing and then slaps him. He later convinces her to teach Sarny more letters.
               The reading of a story named "Mascot" is about Malcolm X when he is in his teen age and his childhood is changing. At first he was an unsuccessful boxer and then he got switched school to Michigan because of his bad behavior. During the time he is his so called "Detention School," he realizes something. He is one of the only black people and all the white people treat him nicely, like a "Mascot." At school he becomes popular and wins the election of class president. There is one thing he notices about the whites. They use a lot of bad language as if they wouldn't care. His cousin, Ella, comes to visit him from Boston and suggests that he should go with her. So he does. He then realizes the environment there id filled with people he can relate to, Black people. And he enjoys it a lot. Later on Malcolm has a talk to his English teacher, Mr. Ostrowski, and asks if he is capable of becoming a lawyer. His teacher says no and suggests other careers for him but he declines and stays in Boston with Ella. That sums up the story called "Mascot."
               The Great Debaters has many similarities and differences in both stories we read, Nightjohn and "Mascot." The Great Debaters and Nightjohn mainly focus on location at that time of point. Both stories occur in the South which contain many black people and many are treated kind of the same. Many people are racist but are also punishable for their deeds. The story "Mascot" and The Great Debaters relate to each other because they both share the concept of having equal rights. In "Mascot" equal rights is used when Malcolm X is treated nicely from white people, and in The Great Debaters equal rights is used when James Farmer (The Dad) accidentally runs over a pig. He then has to pay his depth of a price of $25.00 to these poor farmers. James Farmer is a high class man, and a whole lot educated than those guys but he still gave some of his life savings by earning money from working up to the farmers. That is how both stories relate to the movie, The Great Debaters.