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Point Of View Of Night John By Gary Paulsen

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The whole point of the war was to fight for freedom, and for the education of others. In the excerpt from Night john by Gary Paulsen the point of view was about learning the alphabet. The point of view was to teach the helpless slaves by teaching them the alphabet. Night John wanted the slaves to feel free, and to be free by disobeying the slave owner by teaching them knowledge. The whole idea was to get the slaves to break the rules by learning what they aren't supposed to be learning. Overall this is telling you that education was important. People risked their lives to teach others to be free. Night John was free, but he kept coming back to the slaves to teach them. Night John thought that education was very important for every one and that's why he kept coming back, which was the point of view, to teach slaves the education they needed. This can change and influence somebody to teach others because once they learn, they will know how important education actually is. …show more content…

The excerpt point of view is talking about the whole concept of slavery. The point of view was the slavery before, then modern slavery. It talked about that slavery mostly existed in every society. It existed before and it exists today in different countries. It isn't something that happened like hundred years ago, it still in fact continues to this day. It talked about modern slavery and that there still is slavery just like the cruel slavery like before in the 1700's and 1800's. Where you would get whipped for dis obeying your slave master. It says that slavery is a smaller portion today. It wasn't like before where mostly everyone was a slave. How this can affect someone is if you were to feel slavery you would try to get others free from slavery. You wouldn't want to let others feel the pain you felt. You would feel bad because the person is suffering. You would feel bad and not let this person take it

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