Chains

In the book Chains Isabel and her little sister are being sold to a different master due to thier old one dying. They are sold to two loyalist which already had one slave named Becky who is older and does most of the cooking and were willing to take a few more. Soon Isabel got used to working for “Madam Lockton” and everything was going great until the worst thing Isabel could imagine happened. Ruth had a seizure. Ruth is only a couple of years old but has these seizure often. Madam thinks that Ruth is a demon child and begs her husband to sell her, but he thinks different. As the days go on Isabel meets a slave boy named Curzon. Since Isabels masters are loyalist he asks her to spy on them and tell him the information. At first shes says no but finally after hearing some important news she reports it to him. She is a rebellion in the making. Then one day Mrs.Locton leaves and he says hes not coming back. Suddenly Madam is being very nice to Isabel and gives her a day off, and some Delicious milk and cookies, which she later find out had sleeping potion. The next day when Isabel fianally wakes up she finds ruth is missing! She runs to Becky. Becky explains how Madam had sold Ruth. Thats when she saw Madam and starts making her way up to her with great hate. Madam gets very scared and throws a painting at Isabels head. Thats when Becky opens the door telling Isabel to run. She runs with all her might trying to exscape the guards chasing her, but she just wasn’t fast enough. Once they caught her she gets dragged by a horse causing her teeth to fall out, then goes to jury. They find her guilty and brand her with the letter I for Insolence. Every one stares at her, and she feels even more hate torwards Madam. Thats when she relizes she has to exscape, not for her, but her sister.

This picture really reminds me of the book chains. When I look at this picture I see a girl who has no freedom trying to break away from her cage-or in this case chains-looking, dreaming for freedom. Just like the butterfly above her. This reminds me of how Isabel is trying to exscape the world of slaves, and just trying to be free like a white person. Isabel is sent to madams cousins house because she needs another slave to help her around the house since she took a bunch of people into her house to help them out. Her name is Lady. Then one night Ladys house is swallowed by flames. Isabel manged to save one of Ladys paintings but nothing else. They soon found out the reason for the fire was because the loyalists had captured the rebellions. Thats when Isabel starts secretly visiting the prison cell to stay in touch with Curxon. She starts bringing in Scraps for all the prisoners so they won’t starve to death. Once she gets back to Madams house Madam gives her a talk about not talking with the rebellions because apparently its bad for there reputation. Then on Christmas morning every thing changes. The rebellions had a surprise attack on the loyalist and won! Thats when Isabel delivers a note to one of the rebellions and Madam found out. She started to freak and threatened to sell her and her sister, but wait wasn’t Ruth already sold? Madam was really just faking it the whole time! Madam locks Isabel in the potato bin and leaves her there. Isabel feels like shes about to die in the potato bin when she is finally able to break it open. She quickly steels a pass and goes to the jail sell to free Curxon. In her plan Curxon pretends he is dead so Isabel carries him out side “to get rid of him.” Really she just brings him out there so he can escape with her. This book may be over……but there mission has just begun. Song Oh, don’t hang your head It’s gonna end God’s right there Even if it’s hard to see Him I promise you that He still cares When the waves are taking you under Hold on just a little bit longer He knows that this is gonna make you stronger, stronger The pain ain’t gonna last forever And things can only get better Believe me This is gonna make you stronger Gonna make you stronger, stronger, stronger Believe me, this is gonna make you … Try and do the best you can Hold on and let Him hold your hand And go on and fall into the arms of Jesus Oh, lift your head it’s gonna end God’s right there Even when you just can’t feel Him I promise you that He still cares ‘Cause if He started this work in your life He will be faithful to complete it If only you believe it He knows how much it hurts And I’m sure that He’s gonna help you get through this When the waves are taking you under Hold on just a little bit longer He knows that this is gonna make you stronger, stronger The pain ain’t gonna last forever In time it’s gonna get better Believe me This is gonna make you stronger This reminds me of the book Chains because all these bad things are happening to Isabel but she just hangs in there the whole time and always keeps on trying. Like when her sister was sold. She felt really sad and I think she thought about giving up but she knew this would make her stronger so she kept on going. Also in one part of the book she is thinking about how she got the letter I branded on her cheek and remembering how her dad always wore his scars proudly to show her was strong so she was.