Johnathan Narrative

In Chapter 4 of Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen, Sarny begins to tell about gruesome events that teach the reader about how rough slavery truly was. The first person Sarny mentions was Alice who wanders around without doing much more was caught near the whitehouse. She was then handcuffed and whipped, and when it was all set and done she had massive cuts on her back and all over her body. The next person she tells about was Jim who attempted to run away. That did not work out because Waller sent the dogs after him, and they tore his legs to shreds and left him on a tree to die. After Jim was Pawly who met with a girl every night, and one night while walking back after he fell asleep near the other plantation the dogs were sent after him and

When Johnny grew up he moved to earth. When he moved to earth, he went to North America,

Abigail Williams is a power-hungry teenage girl from the realistic, historical fiction story “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, which takes place during the Salem Witch Trials. She shows she is power-hungry by accusing people of being witches, threatening whoever figures out her secrets, and fakes seeing specific images such as the “yellow bird” to try and get people out of her way in her climb to the top.

Another huge mystery that is presented in the story is who Johnny’s father could possibly be. Throughout the story there tended to be a lot of foreshadowing of who Johnny’s father could be. In addition, Johnny’s mother promised that she would tell him when he was old enough. However, all that changed after that, “FATED BASEBALL” (Irving 105). When Johnny’s mother was struck with the baseball he thought that the person in the stands she was waving to was his father. During every big event after that Johnny and Owen tried to envision the stands to figure out who his father may be. However, he always missed remembering the person in the stands who was actually his father. Furthermore, the foreshadowing of Johnny trying to recreate the stands showed how his father would be revealed in an extraordinary way. Johnny learns who his father is after Owen’s death when he was talking to Rev. Lewis Merrill. Johnny explained that conversation as , “When the Rev. Lewis Merrill spoke he spoke not with his own voice - he spoke in the exact falsetto, the “permanent scream,” of Owen

Abigail Williams, a vindictive 17-year-old niece of Reverend Parris, fancy’s her unrealistic future with John Proctor, a man of integrity. Her unconditional lust for Proctor causes her to perform demonic witchery in the woods, to venture (gain back) Proctors love. In need of rescue, Abigail deflects the incident in the woods and incriminates more than half of the town to

ago and died. Now they live in an apartment alone and tell people their father is

• Johnny’s parents hated him, beat and cursed at him, didn’t care where he was or what happened to him

One day Cromwell was in a Saloon gambling with another white man named Sam Reiter but eventually Cromwell had gambled all the money he had so he chose to gamble John but ended up losing John. Once John had arrived to Reiter’s house he was chained up in the attic, it was three days until Reiter came up to unchain John so that he could play in his back yard but while Reiter was not looking, Cromwell stole John from Reiter’s backyard. John continued to preforming for weeks before his parents finally found a lead on John and Cromwell’s locations, but when they did John’s stepfather came after them and once again John was reunited with his family. After that traumatic experience John would unite with two other boys and they would all play together on trains and earn money, but that all changed when the railroad company announced that they would no longer allow performers on the train for free and the group started to disband after a pretty heated argument with each other and the three boys all went their separate way. John would continue to play and would

Prior to Tabitha’s death, Owen is absolutely sure that he “saw” the angel of death, and Johnny in recollect stated that Owen believed he had disrupted the “SCHEME OF THINGS” by interrupting it while Tabitha was sleeping, ensuring its task unto him.(Ch.3) Johnny’s initial skepticism is not unwarranted given that they were still young boys and Owen may have mistaken the mannequin for an Angel of death, and is in fact indicative of the fact that there is a deeply-rooted difference between his beliefs and those of Owen. Owen, on the other hand, is deeply adamant in his vision of the Angel and becomes set in his growing belief of fatalism. At the same time, Owen’s ability to feel the Angel’s presence creates a stronger bond between himself and the entire supernatural aspect of his being. Together John and Owen represent two sides of the spectrum creating dissonance between the two that leads to a general ambiguity which clouds either a naturalistic or supernaturalistic system of

He goes around and tries to get people to lie and say they were doing some type of witchcraft. When some didn’t he would get mad at them and all them idiots. The people he didn’t save though are going down as heroes because they didn’t admit to something that would have been a lie. Then in the end he gets mad because John doesn’t wanna concede to witchcraft, because he knows he hasn’t done it.

Abigail Williams and the Evil Nature of Manipulation In the Bible, Matthew 7:15 states “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. " Many people in theocracy based society seem to disregard this rule and use their authority to make others follow them even if they are not preaching the truth. These situations can cause deadly effects and lead to chaos and destruction.

John believed that faith was useless because no matter what decision you made the next thing that happened was always up for grabs, the courage needed to make decisions was useless. Johnny had always thought that Owen was crazy for being as faithful as he was. It wasn’t until Owen’s comparison with John knowing the Mary Magdalene was there with Owen knowing God was there did he finally understand the kind of faith Owen truly had. John had always admired Owens faith but at the same time didn’t understand it. Johnny had gone through so many things as a kid, not having a dad and his mother being killed by his best friend, that he was almost numbed emotionally. John may have seemed to be protecting Owen, but Owen was the one guiding and protecting John the whole time. Johnny Wheelwright was a representation of the doubt mankind

town are accused of witchcraft, a hubbub led primarily by the teenager Abigail. To win back the

When Mary Warren comes into the court and claims that everything that happened in the woods is a lie, the group plots together to prove she is wrong. If Mary exposes them, then every single one of them will likely be hanged or put in jail. Abigail accuses Mary of sending a cold breeze to torture her and the other girls. The girls act as one with Abigail as their speaker because of group mentality. The group follows Abigail’s example because they know it will help their cause.

In this book we observed many characters who have faults in this tragic situation, but some characters caused more damage than others. Abigail Williams is one of the characters that was involved with this situation. If you were part of something, you should take responsibility for what you did and caused. At first, you sort of sympathize her but when you continue reading the book you realize that she is evil. Abigail was the start of this problem, when she began to lie it caused a lot more tension and suspicion in the village.