'Night Journeys Essay\r'

'Night Journeys by Avi is a story, particularize in 1768, of a teenage orphan named spear York who lives with Everett Shinn and his family in Pennsylvania. Mr. Shinn is the leader of the Quaker Community and the local Justice of the Peace. son of a bitch, who has been promised by the Shinn family to be treated head in exchange for his horse, Jumper, and hard work on their farm, is presented with what he refers to as a great crisis. The expound of this crisis are revealed as lance becomes deeply voluminous in a manhunt for dickens escaped bondsmen, snap off known as indentured servants.\r\nAlthough only 12 courses sometime(a), peter volunteers to participate in the assay for the escaped servants and finds himself facing physical perils as he and Mr. Shinn become separated during the search. rotating shaft inadvertently finds one and only(a) of the escapees, who just happens to be an 11 year old(a) young woman. After Peter shoots the girl, rather by accident, he find s himself torn between his moral obligation to patronise by the law and re go with the girl, which would yield a reward and allow Mr. Shinn to purchase a modernistic horse and return Jumper, and following his conscience, which tells him to provide pabulum and help the girl escape.\r\nAfter making a rushed promised to help the girl escape to liberty, Peter learns that the second servant has been found and is being held prisoner at the Shinn family farm. Peter has already promised one of the servants that he would help, so how, he wonders, can he turn his back on her accomplice.\r\nIs it right to help two convicted felons escape, when doing so will incriminate him and bring dishonor to the Shinn family, or should he turn in the girl and have both of these servants be returned to their â€Å"Master”? Peter takes action and decides to help both prisoners escape to freedom after much reflection and a realisation that he too is imprisoned to the Shinn family, albeit in a less obvious manner than the two bondsmen.\r\nAs the story comes to a close, Mr. Shinn craftyly helps as Peter escapes with the servants to freedom. And as with any great story, there is a pleasant twist at the end where Peter returns to the farm, having given Jumper to the servants, and Mr. Shinn acknowledges that Peter, the 12 year old child, has done what he, the elder moral leader of the community, was not able to do. A bond between the two is firmly established and Peter returns to the Shinn farm, not as a prisoner, but as a section of the family.\r\nNight Journeys can serve as a great read aloud for an upper master(a) class that is studying character education. With a comparatively simply plot, and advantageously identifiable moral knowing and feeling conflicts, this book can be use to demonstrate how Peter, a likeable 12 year old, acts in a way that exemplifies his morals, showcases his personal set and otherwise focuses on character education. Teaching points tie in to var ious aspects of character education are easily created to align with the use of this book as a class read aloud.\r\n'