The Land

I have started a book in my language arts class, it is called The Land written by Mildred D.Taylor. This is a well-written book about the days and years after slavery for a boy named Paul Edward Logan.


The book is a about a mixed boy who’s father used to be a slave owner. While he was a slave owner he had two children with one of his slaves named Deborah (their names are Cassie and Paul Edward) and he took good care of Cassie and Paul Edward he saw to it that they learned how to read, write, and do math. But this was not the usual action of a slave owner with mixed children, so he didn’t treat them as he did his white children from is white wife. He had to make sure that he didn’t let he Cassie And Paul sit at his chair when they were to be company coming over.


But when this happened Paul (who is the main character in the story) didn’t mine being sent away from the table because his white brother named Robert would always go with him since they were the same age they grew up to be very close to one another.


In the beginning of the story Paul is having trouble with one of his fathers black workers because they didn’t like that he was mixed but he still got treated like a white person. So they took it upon themselves so beat up Paul whenever they got the chance. But one day after Paul’s brother gave him the advise to go and solve his solution by himself he met with Mitchell who was one of the worst people who disliked him he said that if Mitchell would teach him how to fight that he would teach Mitchell how to read and write and do all of those things. So Mitchell agreed and they began to learn from each other, Mitchell and Paul began to grow closer as sort of brothers.

I like this book alot because it is not what you would think it is about since it is an story from back in those days.