Gary Paulsen's Nightjohn

In chapter four of Gary Paulsen’s Nightjohn, a slave named Alice was caught walking into the White House. Waller, the slave owner, doesn’t allow slaves in the White House so he whipped her until her back was ripped and bleeding. Sarny, the narrator, recalled a story about a slave name Jim. Jim tried to escape during the night but the next morning Waller set after him with the dogs. Waller feeds the dogs blood things that make them mean. Jim climbed a tree but the tree wasn’t good enough; the dogs could reach the bottom of him. The dogs tore and ripped him until there wasn’t anything left. Pawley, another slave that tried to escape, he ran every night and made it back by the morning; he ran to see a girl that worked at another plantation. But