So in my previous blog, I made a prediction about the boy running away with either getting caught or traveling with someone else who is very smart. My prediction was right. He did not get caught of course, so here's what happened so far: While the boy is asleep in the kitchen, he hears someone moving around in the house so he lays still because he is kind of scared. He thought maybe it was his master or the wife getting up in the middle of the night coming after him. So as the person get closer, he notices its the man from the barn who takes care of the animals. So the man wakes up the boy quietly and tells him to bring a skillet and a knife and come with him. The boy gets scared at first, but after pressure from the man from telling him to come on and hurry up, he gets the materials and they sneak out of the house.
Long story short, the boy is really nervous and scared at first to even runaway because he thinks about what his aunt might say when she finds out he's gone, and what his master and wife might think or do to his aunt because she may have had something to do with him running off. A lot of things go through his head, but after talking to the older man and his experiences, he decides that he will never go back and they will stick together. He wants his freedom just as well.... But what will happen along their journey? What are the materials for?
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Runaway Slave - Make Predictions
There is this young boy, about 12 years of age, a slave, that is being taken care of by his aunt. He often times gets in trouble with his master, which is also his aunt's master. So every time he gets in trouble, his aunt has to come up with a punishment and has to agree to follow it so their master wont do anything more severe than she plans to do. For example, he accidentally drops a dish on the floor and his master and the wife see it. The wife gets very upset, and starts talking very negative about the boy. The master came up with a plan to whoop him but the boy's aunt stepped in and said that she will take care of it. She told the master that she will make sure that he gets nothing else to eat for the next day and that he can sleep in the kitchen on the floor where its cold for the night.
The boy's aunt always lectures and gets on him about every little thing he does because if it wasn't for her, he would be getting a taste of the severe punishments that she use to get from the master back in her younger days. She doesn't want him to have to feel that, so she always does what she can to help the boy before she leaves or dies and try to give him some knowledge on how to keep himself out of trouble. My prediction is that the boy will try to run away and either get caught because he's not that smart or somebody else will lure him in to run with them.
The boy's aunt always lectures and gets on him about every little thing he does because if it wasn't for her, he would be getting a taste of the severe punishments that she use to get from the master back in her younger days. She doesn't want him to have to feel that, so she always does what she can to help the boy before she leaves or dies and try to give him some knowledge on how to keep himself out of trouble. My prediction is that the boy will try to run away and either get caught because he's not that smart or somebody else will lure him in to run with them.
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