Summary part 2

Elijah came back home after fishing with 6 fish and he shared to Mrs. Brown and Mr. Leroy because he has promised them to hand them fishes. In this chapter nothing much has happen, or it should be seen as nothing at all will stir up some conflict in later chapter, but it shows that Elijah is learning more and more about life.

The next chapter is about Mr.Travis trying to taught some manner to these kids, because he didn't like the way Cooter address him at the sawmill. I can sense that somehow Mr. Travis wasn't teaching about it much but he sure was angry at Cooter for being disrespectful.

Later that day, Elijah worked with Mr. Leroy until dark and they walked back together. While doing so, Elijah talked to him about many things and when he said the word "Niggah", Mr. Leroy was very pissed and taught some serious lesson to Eli that this word is a cold, harsh word that could penetrate through any former slaves' heart and make them angry.

The preacher took Eli to the circus but Eli wasn't totally convinced but the preacher convinced him about how awesome would it be so in the end he accepted to go with preacher. At there he saw a show where one woman shoot a slingshot to anything accurately and he saw "Jimmy", one of his schoolmate, there in the show too. And after that the preacher took Eli to meet other person.

In the next show Eli watched, there's a stranger white kid sat next to him and told him about that there's Elijah of Chatham and he didn't like to see any body to have the same name with him. This shows that racism is still there even though there's no more slave but still, people tends to stick to the way they used to be.

The next story is pretty interesting. Preacher brought Eli to the camp's owner and the preacher show off Eli's skill of throwing rocks to him and want to let him pay some wages for traveling with them and showing the skills. After that night in the Monday's morning, McWee told Eli and other students that the preacher is actually a theif and steal the circus' money and kidnap him to here. This is a twist in a story which most of the reader might not seen even a foreshadow of preacher's true color before.