Essays on nightjohn

The main theme of this short novel is slavery, but we cannot stop only at this one because are others that derive from slavery: prejudice, freedom, leadership. “Nightjohn” is a masterpiece because it involves all of these elements, managing to show a past world, with its sorrows and injustices.

The purpose of the present paper is to prove the theme from the novel Nightjohn by Gary Paulsen, using examples from the novel which reveal this theme. Also, the writer of this paper deconstructs the novel by its literary elements… Slavery was a very discussed theme in the American society, but it was also an used topic in literature.

The book Nightjohn written by Gary Pualsen and the movie directed by Charles Burnett. The book talks more about the black slaves and Nightjohn teaching Sarny how to read. The movie talks more about the whites. Pualsen talks more about the blacks. Burnett talks about the whites mostly.

The novel was appreciated because it emphasized the slavery in a very original way. He shown the implications of that period, and the reactions of the people in front of such hard time. Nightjohn was a slave who managed to escape in the North, but he returned in the South, having the same purpose.