Describe the historical time period, according to the chapter. What clues from this chapter support this time period. How do the charecters talk, dress, act and/or think? How does the setting
of the novel lend to your understanding of this time period.
In this chapter, the time period it seems like it is in the 1700s. The characters seem like they dress really fancy and the slaves dress bad. In chapter 4, the slave master Madam seems really stuck up and selfish. Madam also acts like a Loyalist, because she talks about how she was happy the British troops were coming. I think that Isabel is a slave because she is treated less than and she was sold to work for the locktons. Isabel's thoughts make me think that she is coming up with a plan to run away with her sister Ruth. The setting tells me a little about the time period, because they always stay in there house or around the town because to leave New York they have to get on a boat. Isabel's old slave owner died and she was much nicer than Madam. Most of the characters talk slang like the slaves. Because they talk about slaves slave owners, patriots, loyalist, and British soldiers, the time period makes me think it is in the late 1700s.
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