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Motown Music, Money, Sex and Power by Gerald Posner
Chapter 32-35

5) Comments I have:
• Gordy was furious when Motown acquired film rights to shoot films.
• Motown was going back down the drain.
• They used Stevie Wonders as hope to help the company becomes popular again.
• After Tremendous surge of nostalgia about the label, Motown music represented The big chill in the generation of 1983.
• As the slaves floundered Motown found it increasingly difficult to sign new artistes with now its artistes would sign from different record labels than Motown.
4) Insightful questions I have:
• Who has a record deal with Motown
• Is Ben Gordy still Alive now?
• IS his family still in his business more?
• Is Gordy still in struggle today?
3) Vocabulary:
• Prominent
• Commodores
• Ajar
2) Examples of literary terms:
Man vs Society
Internal conflict
1) Summary:
The company popularity keeps rising and drops, Depending on the artiste who makes the company big.

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Motown Music, Money, Sex and Power by Gerald Posner
Chapter 28-31

5) Comments I have:
• Motown spent 24 million dollars to make movies on broad way.
• Gordy was worried about what happen to two men he know because they were in a car crash.
• Mahogany Became Diana Ross’s second movie project of Motown and she was paid a million a year to be Motown actress
• Michael Jackson stop recording solo albums for Gordy.
• Gordy was having trouble with stopping Motown decline
4) Insightful questions I have:
• Was Michael Jackson Motown secrete weapon?
• What was Motown main concern?
• Did Jackson 5 joined back Motown later on years later?
• How come Recording companies keep always have to have something wrong that’s going to happen.

3) Vocabulary:
• Rehabilitation
• Innervations
• Semi consciousness
2) Examples of literary terms:
• Man Vs Society
• personification
1) Summary: Motown spent money to invest on making movies and invested on actress to act in movies.

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Delroy Demontegnac
Motown Music, Money, Sex and Power by Gerald Posner
Chapter 24-27

5) Comments I have:
• Motown was filed with law suites and hundreds of dollars being taking away from them because they haven’t paying their taxes.
• Gordy and his company change because he bought his first home in California and he was enamored with Hollywood.
• Gordy tried getting his family together and mostly his sons set.
• Jacksons produced ABC which came to be number one on the billboard charts.
• Jackson 5’s were a big hit for Motown which Ben Gordy really needed
• Insightful questions I have:
3) Vocabulary:
• Enamored
• Arbiters
• Comprehended
2) Examples of literary terms:
1) Summary:

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Motown Music, Money, Sex and Power by Gerald Posner
Chapter 20-23

5) Comments I have:
• During this 1960’s Motown artistes were hit makers making a lot of hits internationally worldwide.
• They wanted to move Motown but Gordy figure out he did then more conflicts and problems he would face to move.
• Two people fought in Motown records and this brought the popularity down.
• Gordy gave his house to his sister and moved to Boston with was very depressing for him and brought him down.
• A lot of Motown artistes challenged their contracts and wanted more.
4) Insightful questions I have:
• Did Motown sell more than different record labels?
• Did a lot of music artistes’ transfer from Motown to a new label?
• What cause Gordy to be depressed?
• Which artist helped increase Motown popularity?
3) Vocabulary:
• Donovan
• Contours
• Crammed
2) Examples of literary terms:
• Man Vs Man
• Man Vs Society

• Summary:
• A lot of artistes wanted to work for different record labels because of how Motown treated them and the amount of money they were paid.

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Motown Music, Money, Sex and Power by Gerald Posner
Chapter 16-19

5) Comments I have:
• By 1965, as Motown accumulated more hits on the charts and it was recognized everywhere around the country.
• The company had 4.5 million in sales of 1963.
• Motown still wanted new talent from people around.
• Motown was only successful when it was 1966 where they made it big at that time.
• Gordy had another wife and still had encountered family problems.
• There were racial tensions during mid 60’s within Motown
4) Insightful questions I have:
• Do Gordy gets pay the most in Motown?
• Did other company sold more than Motown?
• Were there lots of blacks supporting Motown?
• What did Gordy care about trust or Money?
3) Vocabulary:
• Accumulated
• Busiest
• Deadpanned
2) Examples of literary terms:
Man vs Society
Man Vs Man
1) Summary:
Motown was making hits from selling over a millions albums worldwide.

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Delroy Demontegnac
Motown Music, Money, Sex and Power by Gerald Posner
Chapter 13-15
5) Comments I have:
1. Gordy and his judges who choose songs that can make a hit to decide the best songs and artistes’ in Motown.
2. George Schiffer, helped the label strikes a European distribution deal with recording industry giant.
3. Forty two of sixty records produced that year broke into the charts.
4. Top members left Gordy for getting paid advance.
5. People who were Gordy close friend betrayed him like his friend Esther who had a deal with another record label.
4) Insightful questions I have:
1) Have there be any lynching with black singers?
2) Did Gordy care about his Family and wife?
3) Did a lot of his members betrayed him by working with a different company?
4) What did Gordy do after his best friends working for different companies?
3) Vocabulary:
1. Deadpanned(119)
2. Sardonic(120)
3. Cannibalized(122)

2) Examples of literary terms:
1. Gordy broke the silence as the door to the meeting room was closed”(118)- personification
2. The word boy caused Gaye’s face to flush with anger.”(124)- personification
1) Summary: Gordy is struggling with keeping his company stabled and many of his workers working for a different company.

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Motown Music, Money, Sex and Power by Gerald Posner

Chapter 10-12
5) Comments I have:
1. Gordy created international Talent Management.
2. They signed the temptations’ to be part of their record label.
3. There were many people who though his record label company was dumb and he’s just a “stupid nigger”
4. Music artistes were aborted from his music label and Gordy tried suing those who stole their stars for 250 million dollars against turner.
5. His company became bigger and better that he could afford going on tours. Also Stevie wonder was from Motown.
6. Gordy wife is filing for divorce.
4) Insightful questions I have:
1. Was their criticism of different record labels?
2. Were there white singers who were in Motown?
3. How many wives did Gordy get divorced with?
4. Is Gordy still is in family crisis right now with his wife and kids?
3) Vocabulary:
1. Norm(98)
2. Dub(101)
3. Utilized(101)
2) Examples of literary terms:
1. “Gordy, always image conscious warned the men not to harass women and girls- his biggest concern was that the girls might get pregnant.”(100)- personification
2. “Make one whisper and I’m going to blow you away”(103) personification -
1) Summary:
1) Gordy has problems with his family like his wife and with other record companies in which he’s filing for sue.

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Motown Music, Money, Sex and Power by Gerald Posner

Chapter 7-9
5) Comments I have:
1) Gordy artistes who works for him becomes more successful which attract more singers to try get into his business.
2) Gordy had kids about like 4 and he have a wife.
3) Gordy business sometimes has problems with money and different things like his family in his life.
4) Motown records starts releasing albums national around the country.
5) Soon after when he became more successful wanna be singers from all around wanted to get a record deal from Motown.
4) Insightful questions I have:
1) How old are his kids?
2) Did he get divorced before?
3) What happened to his parents after when he becomes more successful?
4) Were his concerns and problems finding money to invest in his singers?

3) Vocabulary:
1) Deluged (60)- a great flood of water
2) Implored (60)- to beg urgently or piteously, as for aid or mercy
3) Exasperation (60) - an act or instance of exasperating; provocation.
2) Examples of literary terms:
1) “My heart drops “(58)-This is example of personification because it’s describing object characteristics of a heart dropping.
2) “We don’t go for Dilly- dilly-gum-gum’ type lyrics.”(56)- This is an example of a metaphor which is trying compare no so go with saying it in a different way.
1) Summary:
2) His Motown records became more a hit which increased amount of singers becoming more on top and him becoming richer.

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Motown Music, Money, Sex and Power by Gerald Posner
Chapter 4-6
5) Comments I have:
1. Gordy and Davis put together a small stable of local singers to help make Motown become successful.
2. At the beginning of Motown Gordy was paid about thirty dollars weekly which was still low for him.
3. Gordy moved his cooperation to Gwen’s’ Large apartment, because he wanted to be independent and get more money which it led to more of a success.
4. Gordy then start to need money to press albums for artistes
5. Gordy help pays his family loans and lives with them but after the business becoming more successful it creates less stress with paying money and working for money.
4) Insightful questions I have:
1) Is he going to get married?
2) Does he have a girlfriend?
3) Is the Motown still a big hit?
4) Does a person go through struggles like this to become on top?

3) Vocabulary:
1. Reluctantly (33) - unwilling.
2. Frantically (30) - Highly excited with strong emotion or frustration.
3. Bobbed (35) - a short, jerky motion.
2) Examples of literary terms:
1. “We got out by the skin of our teeth.”(30) This is a form of a personification because it’s trying to share characteristics of teeth having skin.
2. “A local lawyer warned him that even so, his new business would be undercapitalized and doomed to failure.”(32) This is an example of man vs. man conflict because many people think that he can’t make it and having negative dough’s about him.
1) Summary:
This is when he tried putting his time in working at his Motown Cooperation working with Davis then went on his own and moved.

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Chapter 1-3

5) Comments I have:
1. Berry Gordy was a great grandson of a slave who had moved from the Ford assembly line to founding Motown Records.
2. Motown Records was the most successful music label of the 1960’s.
3. Michael Jackson was also from Motown records.
4. Berry Gordy was the owner of Motown records and he was born Nov, 28 1929.
5. In order for Berry Gordy to own a place called Motown records, he was intelligent, he worked and worked until he got enough money to buy his own place then he created his own place.
4) Insightful questions I have:
1. How did he get from being a position from being a poor black person into a owner of Motown records?
2. Is his kid are the owners and manager of Motown records now?
3. What’s going to happened to him into the next chapters?
4. Is someone in his family going to die like his mother to motivate him in anyway to try to pursue his Dream of becoming rich?
3) Vocabulary:
1. Strife (Posner 6) - a quarrel, struggle, or clash.
2. Frenzied (9) - wildly excited or enthusiastic.
3. Tenement (8) - any species of permanent property, as lands, houses, rents, an office, or a franchise, that may be held of another.
2) Examples of literary terms:
1. “Both Parents were strict disciplinarians, praising their children generously for good accomplishments but also meting out corporal punishment for transgressions”(Posner 7)- this an example of situational irony because the reader whose reading knows why his parents are beating him to do good and he has success and I know that he would become successful.
2. “Instead, he reserved his enthusiasm for boxing at neighborhood gym. It was a sport to appealed to many local blacks…” (Posner 9)-This is situational Irony because this shows that he’s trying to do anything that he can make lots of money from so he tries to do anything like boxing to make it big but we know that he might be able to make it from that but from something else.
1) Summary: Through chapter1-3 this story’s about Berry Gordy and about is family struggles and his struggles to fine a job to be successful at it. He went looking around and around searching for a job that can bring you to success like boxing but it wasn’t quite successful for him though.

Chapter 17- 18

5)
1)Anthony was sent to another trial.
2) If Anthony wins his trial more laws for slaves would be passed.
3)Burns has a chance that he might gain his freedom.
4)Anthony Burns, with his testimony of being a slave, won his freedom.
5) The laws were pasted that Anthony was a freeman.
4)
1) can a slave be on so much testifies like this?
2) was their more people who was on the side of Anthony burns that people who protest against it?
3) What was Anthony burns major problem was?
4) Was life in prison default for Anthony burns?
3)
1)memorandum- a short note designating something to be remembered
2)adjournment( Hamilton 140)-the act of adjourning or the state or period of being adjourned.
3)contradictory (Hamilton 141)- tending or inclined to contradict.

2)
1)”it grew hot and uncomfortable, and at last he fell into an exhaust sleep.” (Hamilton 131)- this is an example of personification because it trying to put growing as a characteristic of hot of how it grows.
2) “if you rule against him, a free man will be a slave for ever.” (148)- this is an example of situational irony because we know that a free slave would still be treated unfairly and still like slaves.


1) through this chapter more danger keeps happening while Anthony is in prison . Each time when Anthony was put on trail he kept believing his self and having hope that he can overcome what ever he’s in.



Chapter 19- 20
5)
1) Anthony was happy that he won and became a free man.
2) Anthony Burns had thanked his people for supporting him.
3) Anthony was reported and was named in a record
4) About 2000 army men armed against Anthony Burns, then he was recaptured
5) This book is a biography of Anthony Burns. soon later on in the 1860's he died in 1862
4)
1)Was this person real? Anthony Burns?
2) Did anything like this book took place?
3) If you’re a free slave what can a slave do after when they gained freedom?
4) After gaining freedom were free slaves still treated with disrespect?
3)
1)Barricaded (Hamilton 152) a defensive barrier hastily constructed, as in a street, to stop an enemy
2) Conductors (Hamilton 170)- one who conducts
3) Surge (Hamilton 165) a strong, wavelike, forward movement, rush, or sweep

2)
1)” An animal can be sniveling a menace or brave like a man” ( Hamilton 154) this is an example of a simile because it’s describing two thing with using like.
2) “ Theodore Parker, minister of Tremont Temple, had his doubts that Burns would go free..." (Hamilton 152) this is an example of forshaddow because that person saying that Anthony Burns wouldn't be a free man of color and wouldn't be a slave.

1) Thought chapter 19-20 he won the trial, gained his freedom, but he was taken by the Armies . He then published a book about his life before he died sooner on when it was 1862.

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Chpt 13-14
5)
1) Bostonians and people from the surroundings town were getting ready to fight the British.
2) The courtroom where Anthony Burns was being tried was locked down because there had been prisoners who tried to escape.
3) Throughout chapter 14 it took place during 1840’s when he has a quick flash back from when he was enslaved.
4)Also Anthony talked about a different Master he had when he thought about running away.
5) In this chapter he met new and old friends he knew, some died and they were slaves like him.
4)
1) Can slaves have a social life with out permission?
2) What can a slave do to gain freedom?
3) What was the problem of a slave escaping?
4) Was any of this book about a slave true with the experience he went through?
3)
Spurting- A sudden forcible gush or jet.
Hymns- A song of praise or joy; a paean.
Hoses- a flexible tube for conveying a liquid, as water, to a desired point: a garden hose.
2)
1)“ some masters, cruel like Caldwell, used them as entertainments in the big house” (Hamilton 112)- this is an example of simile because its comparing a cruel master like Caldwell.
2)At times, Anthony felt the devil near…” (Hamilton 116) this is situational irony because I know what’s going to happen because this chapter took place couple of years back and I know what would happen next.
1)
Through this Chapter Anthony Burns was still on trail while being in prison. Alot of violence happened some people died, alot of guards and prisoners got hurt while he experiences it. And later on in the chapter it takes couple years back in his past of him working for a different boss.

Chpt 15- 16
5
1) Anthony roomed in Mr. Millspaugh’s own house above the man’s bedroom.
2) Anthony was sent to courthouse jail.
3) African Americans supported Anthony when the day of the trail.
4) Anthony was losing hope of if he’s going to be free but he saw a light and that gave him confidence.
5) Anthony is still on trial.
4)
1)What would happen to Anthony if he escaped for good?
2) Would he become a free African if he wins the court case?
3)What concerns Hamilton if he lost the court case?
4) Is he going to gain his freedom?
3)
1)Mustering-(Hamilton 123) To call (troops) together, as for inspection.
2)Barred (Hamilton 123)- the amount of material in a bar.
3)Custody (Hamilton 125) keeping; guardianship; care.
2)
1) “A pale light gathered Anthony, enough to make him stir” (Hamilton 122) this is an example of situational irony because I know that he’s going to get his freedom.

2) “it is the height of cruelty to the prisoner” (Hamilton 126)- this is an example of personification because it’s describing cruelty as height like an height of an object.

1) This chapter was about Anthony Burns how he still feels that he's not going far with his court case. He’s hopping that he will be freed.

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Chapter 9-10
5)
1) Anthony is still on trial.
2) If Anthony loses he would get arrested and end up from where he started but it gets worse for him.
3) Anthony met up with He Mars.
4) He Mars was still trying to own Anthony as a slave and treat him like an animal.
5) Anthony Burns still has a court case he wants to be free and have freedom from his old master He Mars who wants him back.
4)
1) Can slaves talk in English ? If they were naturally born in America?
2) If Anthony Burns ran away during the court case what would happen to him if he was caught?
3) Can a slave try arresting their masters if they were abused?
4) Can a slave get persecuted by their foolish actions of trying to escape?
3)
1) Crusader- any war carried on under papal sanction.
2) Sardonically (Hamilton 77) - characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering
3) Tumultuous (Hamilton 78) - full of tumult or riotousness; marked by disturbance and uproar: a tumultuous celebration.
2)
1) “ For one I hope to die in a land of liberty in a land which no slave hunter shall dare pollute with his presence.” (Hamilton 74)This is an example of a personification because it’s describing hunters as people who can pollute presence.
2)” His deep voice rang out through the hall.” (Hamilton 74) This is an example of personification because it’s giving a person characteristics of a alarm clock or a ringing noise object.
1)
Through this chapter it was about Anthony Burns in the court case. He tried escaping at first but he was caught and arrested. Many people who knew him wanted him to be free and opposed those who arrested him.






Chapter 11-12
5)
1)He’s in prison.
2)when he was arrested there was an incident that happen In prison.
3)The incident became a big problem, when the attackers killed couple of people and prisoners some escaped.
4)Anthony tried escaping during a riot but he couldn’t.
5) He was still put on trail.
4)
1)What’s going to happen next in the next chapters?
2)Can slave hunters kill slaves for no reason at all?
3)Does slave slayers has the right to slay any escaped, free slaves?
4)In the 1850’s what was the main problems of slaves? Was it trying to gain their freedom?
3)
1)scurrying- to go or move quickly or in haste.
2) boisterous (Hamilton 94)- rough and noisy; noisily jolly or rowdy
3)Manumit (Hamilton 100)-to release from slavery or servitude.
2)
1) “If fairly put a chill around his shoulders” (Hamilton 101).This is an example of a personification because it’s describing chills as concerns with out putting like or as.


2) “Sunday has commenced” (Hamilton 102)- this is an example of Personification because its giving the day Sunday a action or a verb.
1)
Through this chapter Anthony was still on trial and many blacks showed up for the court case of Anthony Burns. Many wanted to support Anthony Burns of not getting executed and sentence to prison.

Chapter 5-6
5)
1) Anthony Burns kept worrying about his past and about his future.
2) He stills tries hiding away from his master because he’s trying to hunt him down.
3) Anthony Burns was issued and warrant to be arrested he was wanted.
4) There were slave’s slayers hunting Anthony Burns down.
5) The slayers caught him and arrested him.
4)
1) Was there any white slayers who slayers? Who was black people slaying white people?
2) Did the KKK take any part of slaying black people?
3) What happens if Anthony was caught?
4) What happens to slaves who escaped more than 2 times?
3)
1) Affidavit (Hamilton 36) - a written declaration upon oath made before an authorized official.
2) Sanctions (Hamilton 37) - Authoritative permission or approval that makes a course of action valid.
3) Busied (Hamilton)- actively and attentively engaged in work or a pastime.
2)
1) “The weight of the past and the darkness of it’s night enclose Anthony until slowly, with the growing light of day he returned to the present.” (Hamilton 33) – This is an example of personification because it’s adding characteristics of past and darkness. This is also an example of Metaphor because it’s trying to describe both things as they’re similar.
2) “The windows of the jury room where he was kept under guard were covered with iron bars that seemed to break the days into welt of pain.”(Hamilton 33) this is an example of personification because it’s describing characteristics of day into pain.
1)
This chapter is about Anthony Burns trying to hide during on his escape while he’s being hunted down by the slayers. Anthony burns was wanted in town and he was caught and arrested.





chapter 7-8
5)
1) This chapter begins with a flash back in year 1846 of Anthony Burns past working for his Master He Mars.
2) He was talking about Rabbits.
3) He was young and a slave during his flash back and He Mars keeps picking on him.
4) Anthony had to send a letter to someone but he tore it up>
5) People wanted to help Anthony from being arrested and being enslaved again.
4)
1) How much power does a slave have?
2) What happens to a slave who looses their court case?
3) Can slaves get an attorney?
4) What do they do to slaves after they arrest them like how they did to Anthony Burns?
3)
1) Lodging (Hamilton 60) - a temporary place to stay; temporary quarters.
2) Sternly (Hamilton 60) - firm, strict, or uncompromising.
3) Affectionate (Hamilton 64) - showing, indicating, or characterized by affection or love; fondly tender: an affectionate embrace.
2)
1)” just as you say. Mars the woods is being enough to hold me” (Hamilton 58) this is an example of a metaphor because this quotes describing the woods that it could actually hold people.
2) “they feared that slavery could enter the territories. It could slither just as easily into the free states of north” (Hamilton 67). This is an example of situational irony because I know that slaves would try to escape and a lot would die trying to escape.
1)
Through these 2 chapters there has been may flash backs that keeps going back and forth about Anthony Burns during his escape and in the past when he was a slave. He was caught and was sentence to court and he’s on trail because of his escape he attempted.

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Anthony Burns: The defeat and triumph of a fugitive slave.
By Virginia Hamilton
Chapter 1-2

5) Comments I have
1) The main character is a black man who was a slave.
2) This book take place in the 1850’s located in Virginia.
3) He was a slave who tried to escape from his master.
4) The main character is scared of some people who picks on him like his boss.
5) He was sent to jail because of crime he did not commit.
4) Insightful questions
1) Is the main character going to escape?
2) Did he live with his parents?
3) Is he and He Mars his boo very close?
4) Was Anthony born a slave or was sold to He Mars?

3) Vocabulary
1) Shunned- to avoid somebody or something intentionally (Hamilton 8)

2) Over doer- a word used to indicate a position directly above something, either resting the top of something, or above the upper suffer of something with a space.(Hamilton 9)

3) Spoilt-something that was spoiled but the past tense of spoil(Hamilton 13)

2) Examples of literary terms
1) First point of view-“the hair above his lip was white too, and yellowish and usually full of shortnin’ johny cake crumbs” (Hamilton 12) this quote came from the first person view of the character the author whose explaining how someone looks like.



2) Man vs Man- “ swiftly Big Walker reached up and slapped him a stinging blow. It brought tears to his eyes and a burning hatred for the black man (Hamilton 13) this is man vs man conflict because the main character has problems with his boss.




1) summary
1) The Main character is name Anthony Burns and he’s a slave who been working for He Mars. He Mars always loves to pick on Anthony and hits him, and make jokes about him. From all of Anthony years of being a slave he wants to escapes.












Chapter 3-4

5) Comments I have
1) He escaped from He Mars.
2) Anthony met new people and friend while on his escape.
3) He was confused about going to another person’s church because before as a slave for He Mars he was committed to not go to another or different church.
4) Anthony was dancing in the church while feeling guilty.
5) His new friends were getting suspicious of Anthony burns if he escaped and tried hiding from getting catch.
4) Insightful questions
1) Could slaves go to assigned churches or any church they wanted?
2) What would happen to Anthony if he was caught?
3) When a slave could be free?
4) Is he going to get caught by his master?

1) Protruding (pg 20)- to stick out from the surroundings, or make something do this

2) Communion (pg 20)- a Christian sacrament that commemorates Jesus Christ's Last Supper, with the priest or minister consecrating bread and wine that is consumed by the congregation

3) Commutates (pg22)- to convert alternating electric current to direct current or vice versa

2) Examples of literary terms
1) “Anthony listened. He felt sick inside. Asa’s words broke his heart” (Hamilton pg 23) this is an example of a personification because he’s describing that his heart could break like an glass object or an object that can break.



2) “darknight. It made him shiver, but it was exciting too.” (Hamilton Pg 27) this is example of situational irony because we know the character is cold from the dark night and not really enjoy his position he’s in, he’s just trying to make everything sounds alright.




1) Summary
1) From this chapter Anthony Burns was trying to hide away from the getting caught from his master during his escape. He met new people and went to a different church he felt guilty of going but enjoy praying the lord.