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In the book, Nightjohn there's two main characters one was a 12 year old girl named sarny, the other main character name was nightjohn , they were both slaves. Nightjohn once escaped but he came back with a rope around his neck,his body covered in scars to teach reading knowing that reading Slaves weren’t allowed to read. When sarny was a kid she prayed for rich people to buy her. Sarny saw nightjohn when he was brought to the waller plantation, when they first met she gave little pinches of Tobacco for one letter in the alphabet. Sarny and nightjohn became close friend, nightjohn enjoyed teaching sarny and he didn't need little pinches of tobacco to teach sarny. The master ounce caught sarny spelling out letters in the dirt,

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