47 is written by Walter Mosley and throughout this book we follow a young slave orphan who has to deal with the trial and tribulations that an ideal slave would have to live with. His master is brutal and he is constant fear of of being beaten or tortured. That is until he meets a runaway slave named tall John John who opens his mind to different of the world such as freedom.
In the book 47 the main character (47) faces plenty of external conflict that goes on as slavery is a horrific and egregious. First conflict that is noticeable is the change of him living in the farm with big momma to having to live with field slaves in their own living quarters. In these quarters he is branded unwillingly by another older slave. Also there is some internal conflict as 47 as he is a field slave is brainwashed into thinking there is no freedom and slavery as he thinks of himself as just another “nigger.”
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