Title: Elijah of Buxton

Author: Christopher Paul Curtis

Pages:341

Blog post #6



The theme of the story is slavery. I got this from page 98 " What do you think they call my girl when they sold her? What Kind of baby they call her from up on the block?". The second one I got from page 152 " How's I free when they tolt me I ain't got no choice but to go to school? How's I free when they got that Johny boy watching over me like a sheriff?".