The Boarder...hope

Were so close, I can feel it. Canada, oh the place keeps going through my head. I can feel hope. As we are rowed across the Ohio River, the train was also a new experience. Or on the May Flower going across Lake Erie. Of course I'm still scared. I mean, Julilly and I don't know how to swim. If we had to jump. But Mr.Ross brightened my whole journey. Seeing him again made me hope that if Mr. Ross is still here and not in prison, I can make it to Canada. Although we keep going through so much, I've never been so hopeful on this journey. Julilly and I are so close and nothing in the world can stop us now. Those evil slave hunters better get out of my way. Although I may be small and my back in pain, I'm not going to just give up something I can taste already. Even since we are so close to Canada already, the slave hunters wouldn't go that far. When we are there, we will be free. The North Star had been doing it's job the whole time, and Julilly and I just have to finish it.

Happily Ever After...

We finally made it to Canada. I met Mammy Sally, Jullily's mom. It was a great experience. But it reminded me of my own mother. Now, I have a mother of my own, Mammy Sally. Lester was there in St. Catherines to. It was so great to see him. But to hear Adam was dead, from those stupid chains that I hated all along. They poisoned him! Another hard hit, but it he made it to Canada. After all those days of fear, pain, all worth it, to be here now. But then Mammy Sally, she surprised us, it turns out she was going to buy a house in St.Catherines with the money she was saving up. I could live with Mammy Sally and Julilly! I could have a family and live like a normal free person! It's amazing! I'm so glad I met Julilly in the first place, that we were chosen by Lester and Mr.Ross to go to Canada. Everyone that helped us on the way, I can't even express my gratitude. I love it and couldn't be happier.

Fear

Another theme of my journey is fear. This because in my journey I go through many things... one being fear, it ties together with escaping. At the Riley plantation there is the fear of being whipped. The fear fear of Sims. The scary man is fat and disgusting and whips you to make himself feel better. While escaping the fear of Sims is still there. The slave hunters are always after you. The bloodhounds with their ferocious barks and snarls send fear through anybodies body. Losing Lester and Adam, having to go on by ourselves. The fact that somebody could find you or see you. When you have to trust someone you just met. The fact that they could betray you. Or when Julilly walks right into a village to buy food. They hold a gun to your head, I'm sure you would be scared to. People coming, while your sitting helplessly in a tree. Or when you hide in a mattres as a slave hunter is in the same room. On our journey, fear surrounds us the entire way.

Escape

The theme of this book for Liza is escaping. I am at a cruel plantation, when a new slave girl(Julilly) comes. I find hope when my new friend comes and tells me about Canada. Julilly and I then set out to Canada for an escape. We go on day and day through rough conditions. But there is always the factor that we could get caught. But we have to leave the plantation, to be free and escape the cruel conditions of this plantation. Escaping is leaving everything behind, to runaway and it is exactly what we do. We slip away to go somewhere we only think is real. The slave traders own us, and treat us poorly. Most of the book is about our actions, of us leaving. The tough times we have to go through, and the more simple. Nothing about escaping is easy.