Compare and contrast

NightJohn is about a slave that was bought for $1000 and girl named sarny that wants to learn how to read in exchange for tobacco. The girl once found a penny and mammy told her to hide it, Her and mammy always pray in the kettle. Old waller is the master and he is the one who bought nightjohn. nightjohn is the one teaching sarny ABC's for tobacco.

Mascot is about Malcolm when he was 13 in 1937 and he weighed 128 pounds and was in the ring versing a white man. The ring is the only place where a negro wouldnt get lynched for beating a white man. He got sent to a reform school for putting a tack on his teachers chair and his teacher sitting on it. Reform means change and to become better. English and history was his favorite classes. In the 7th grade he became the class president. When he was 16 he caught the buss to Boston in 1940. Malcolm told his english teacher he wanted to be a lawyer.

The great debaters is more like Mascot because He went to Boston where main events happens in the movie. Malcolm also wanted to be a lawyer just like one of the characters in the movie. Malcolm was also around the same age as one of the debaters in the movie. The great debaters is like nightjohn only because their was a lot of racism in that story and their was many parts of the movie where their was Negros being harassed or killed.