47 By Walter Mosley pg 80- pg 167

Summary: This book is told from 47 and not the narrator, but its told in a duel narrative voice, So he is telling the story of his life as a child but he still gives comments and and things like that at random moments of a piece o his mind when he is older and has gone through everything already. Going back to the last blog, if anyone had been wondering 47 learned about his moms life and his past from Big Mama Flore, who was one of the elder house slaves who took care of 47 until he was put out in the Fields.So going back to the story well after being put out in the field a so called runaway slave appears. His name is Tall John. And he isn't at all like any of the other slaves. He tells these stories to the other slaves about freedom and how 47 is the one who is going to make it all happen. And of course no one believed it for a second seeing that 47 was barely able to get through a days work of picking cotton let alone changing the world. Tall John also didn't like to be referred to as a ni**er or a slave. He believed he didn't have to do anything that he didn't want to do. And he didn't like to call Mr.Tobias who was the slaves master, master. He believed he was his own master. When Mr. Tobias finds out that theirs a new slave on his plantation he wanted to meet him. Mr. Tobias had herd that Tall John had been a healer, which was true, and his daughter Eloise had been sick so this all worked to his advantage. So Mr. Tobias had Tall John go to find herbs that would cure his daughter. When Tall John and 47 went to look for herbs it started raining, and something weird happened. Tall John said that they had to wait until the sun came back out or they wouldn't had made it back to the plantation. So basically Tall John has some kind of powers and is something other than human. Tall John tells 47 while their waiting that he is the one that he has been searching for and basically now that he has found him the universe will change and there will be freedom.

Quote: "You notice things and you don't only notice but you ask why.Those are only two of the reasons you are destined to become a true hero."(Mosley 109)

Reaction: So in this quote Tall John is telling this to 47. He had told him this observation of him because earlier 47 had asked how Tall John had known were he was going seeing that he was supposed to be new to the plantation. So instead of just forgetting about what he had noticed had been going on, 47 asked how such strange things were happening.