Night John Chapter 1 Summary

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Chapter 4 in NightJohn by Gary Paulsen provides the reader with events Sarny witnesses along with gruesome memories of the past and present experiences with John. Sarny the twelve year old, explains how she notices Alice, a former child who lives in the same quarter, daydreaming while she was “doing work” in the field. After Master found out Sarny began to tell how her and all of the other slaves had to watch Alice be whipped with raw hid against her bare back. The next day, Sarny and Mammy, as she calls her, started cleaning Alice’s back and picking maggot eggs out of the wounds. Sarny wrote about the memories she had of when Jim, a fellow slave, who had tried to escape when he did Weller took five to six field hands plus his violent dogs.