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Prompt: Analyze how dialogue or specific incidents reveal information about characters. Make sure to include textual evidence, Analyze the impact word choice has on the meaning or tone of a text.
There was one specific incident that showed information about mammy. It was after Nightjohn taught Sarny her first word "Bag" and the Master saw her writing it in the dirt. Since writing and spelling where illegal the Master was furies but instead of grabbing Sarny and whipping her he grabbed mammy and tied her up in a well and left her hanging until later that day when he would whip her in front of everybody. After the Master left her hanging in the well Sarny came running over add said "I'll go get Nightjohn he will help" but mammy said "no there is nothing he would be able to do, anyway the master would have to whip me sooner then later for something". This is showing that she has seen so much of the whipping that it is like a way of life for her.
Before Nightjohn taught Sarny her first word mammy caught nightjohn teaching her how to spell and started yelling at him because she did't want Sarny to get caught spelling. But Nightjohn disagreed he told her that you need spelling to get along in life when you are in the North. Then mammy got suspicious and said "how do you know what life is like the North" and Nightjohn said "because I ran away from my last plantation and got away until I was captured in the north and taken back down here". This dialogue reviled that Nighjohn has been free and
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