Summary of pink and say

Answer 1

The Civil war was a rough time for all the soldiers, especially for a 15 year old boy named Say. Say was a runaway solider who got lost by his own side, the Union. He was wounded and couldn't move and there came a mahogany boy to help Say. The boy was the same age as Say, his name was Pink. Pink took good attention of Say and brought him home. There Moe Moe Bay, Pink's mother took good care on Say as if he were her son. Say is a white boy and Moe Moe Bay is a African-American woman who probably has been tortured by white men all her life. All of the sudden people came into the house and Moe Moe Bay took Pink and Say to the root cellar so the people wouldn't find them and kill them and take all there stuff.

As Pink and Say went up Pink was reading, Say thought slaves weren't allowed to read. Pink told him that his master taught him to read because he liked being read to. Say didn't know how to read and he was embarrassed about it. Then Moe Moe Bay told Say to touch her hand; she shook that hand with Abraham Lincoln and she said it was the next best thing to touch so Say did. Then Pink told Moe Moe Bay that they were going back to the war and my ass was the best as it could be

did too, but he didn't really agree with it. Moe Moe Bay said "No!" she was inconsolable. Then the people came and Pink and Say were told to go to the root cellar. When the people barged in the found Moe Moe Bay and shot her. Pink and Say found her lying on the floor dead.

Later on the confederates found Pink and Say because of Say's accent, they were able to tell he was from Ohio. They dropped them in box carts and there were on there way. Say thought they were in there for two days. After that the confederates took them to Anderson Ville, the worst confederate prison. Pink and Say were isolated and a few months later Say was released and he went back home and got married. He had seven children with Abigail Bernard. Say never knew where Pink was or what happened to him. He heard that he was hanged a few hours after he was brought to the prison. This story was passed on from one of Abigail Bernard's children to there and from there to Patricia Palacco. Patricia Palacco says she shook the hand that touched the hand that touched the hand that shook the hand of Abraham Lincoln.