This week we wrapped McClellan and I am glad about that, I dont like talking about failures. I did not like talking about him because he was such a bad general. He claimed to be greater than he was and probably was the cause of many unnecessary lives. Jubilee is getting good. It started out slow, but is picking up. I am able to connect what is happening in the book to the things that I have learned in the class; like John Dutton going to war and how life on the plantation has changed since the beginning of the war. Reading about Johnny Dutton story in the war personalizes the war for me and makes it more real. Also, I like that the book does not idolize the war by having Johnny Dutton die, having Johnny Dutton die makes the war more surreal and puts a personality to another dead body.
Elisabeth
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As I read deeper into Jubilee, I have also realized there are a lot of connections with the book and what were learning in class. The deaths of almost everyone in the Dutton family shows the impact the war had on the lives of Southern families. Fighting in the war wasn't as glorious as many Southern boys thought it would be. Johnny dieing is a great example of this. Finally, all the slaves running away and fleeing to the south is evidently depicted in Jubilee when almost every slave on the Dutton plantation has left when the War finally ends.
MIKE
I also think that Jubilee was really slow in the beginning but it's more interesting now that we actually learn about the characters and their stories. A lot of the stuff we are learning in class are in the book and also in the movie we saw, like the soldiers destroying houses and raping women (almost in the book). The Dutton family represents an average plantation owning family and the book depicts that very well as it explains how the master family treated the slaves,how slaves attempted to escape,how free blacks were treated and how blacks took the war as an occasion to escape.
~Tanya
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