Sunday, November 27, 2011

VERY ROUGH VERSION of Plot Summary & Character Sketch


1. I was born in this place but I grew up here and the first thing I remember is the podium.
-slave auction
-other older slave went with
-sibling stays behind

2.  family and plantation life

3.  master/mistress

4. Christian family & torture

5. CHRISTMAS
-compare white people Christmas to their Christmas (little food and clothes and shoes)

6. literacy
-(thinking maybe the friendly parent-ish person could help? Or master’s nice daughter?)

7.  pure African strong refuse whipping slave fall in love

8. run away (failed attempt)
-guy dies
-blood hounds
-she runs to old plantation

9. sibling! I take you with me! uh oh master catches us
rape

10. hide in the attic
-bad conditions
-stillbirth

11. successful escape
-north star

12. Quaker family & change last name yay friendly white people :D

13.  life in the north
-what is freedom?
-job?

14. northern people! Marry free guy. Babies!

15. check up on old masters/mistresses

16.  reflection on slavery and life

Characters:
-Main character—Clara
-Parenting character—Martha
-sibling—Peter
-African—Abraham
-original master/father—William Scott
-original master’s daughter—Katherine
-new master/mistress—The Hopkins Family (John & Sarah)
-husband—Sam
--chilluns—Beth & Charles
-Quaker Family (forgot to name them....suggestions?!)

5 comments:

  1. ASSIGNMENTS:

    divya-2, 3 & a & c
    john=4, 5, 6
    lisa=7, 8, 9
    Sabrina=10,11,12
    Sam-13, 14, 15
    Sara-1, 16 & f

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  2. Quakers - Johnsons? Smiths? Like for a last name? That way we could just be like "Mrs. So-and-so"?

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  3. Sara what do you mean by checks up on old master..

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  4. Ohhh,and we also need a table of contents and we need to include this list of what everyone does in the narrative

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  5. and a title and a list of conventions we included.. I can help with any of these, but I was just making a list of must-haves :)

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