IN MASCOT MALCOLM GOT EXPELLED FROM HIS OLD SCHOOL THEN WENT TO REFORM SCHOOL BUT WENT TO THE DETENTION HOME MRS.SWERLIN AND HER HUSBAND WERE IN CHARGE OF IT. THEY MADE HIM FEEL WELCOME BUT THEY TREATED HIM LIKE A PET AND NOT A HUMAN BEING LIKE HE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND ANYTHING THEN HE HAD TO GO TO MASON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL SOON AFTER MRS SWERLIN GOT HIM A JOB SECOND SEMESTER OF 7 TH GRADE WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT AND ALSO PLayed basebetball MALCOLM GOES TO LANSING TO VISITED WILFRED AND HILDA AND HIDA AND HIS OTHER BROTHERS AND SISTERS ELLA HIS SISTER CAME DOWN FROM BOSTON AND MALCOLM LOOKED UP TO HER THEN THEY WENT TO VISIT THERE MOM IN KALAMAZOO. ELLA INVITED MALCOLM DOWN TO BOSTON WHEN HE GOT BACK WENT THROGHA BIG TURNING POINT IN HIS LIFE HIS TEACHER MR. OSTWSKI SAID TO HIM BEING A LAWYER WAS UNREALISTIC FOR BLACKS. THEN MALCOLM STARTED ACTING DIFFERENTAND THE HE WENT AND STAYED  WITH ELLA,                                                  
   NIGHTJOHN IS ABOUT SAINY THAT IS A SLAVE AND HOW THEY LIVED IN QUARTERS AN HOW THE QUARTERS WERE LIKE. AN IF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED THERE WOULD GET IN TROUBLE AND HOW THEY WOULD  BE TORCHED.AN HOW MAMMY WOULD TAKE CARE OF THEM AND MAKE SURE THEY STAYED OUT OF TROUBLE.AN SAINY MET JOHN AND HE TAUGHT HIM HOW TO READ.                                                                                    
     THE DIFFERENCE FROM THESE TWO STORIES AND THE MOVIE WAS IN THE GREAT DEBATE IT SEEMED THAT SOME WHITES HATED  BLACKS AND SOME HUNG THEM AND WERE NOT PUNISHED FROM THE LAW FO DOING IT. THEY WERE ALSO TREATER DIFFERENT AND TREATED AND WERE SEGREGATED. IN MASCOT IT SEEMED WHITES PEOPLE TRIED TO HELP BLACKS AND SOME EVEN TALKED TO THEM AND OTHER THINGS BUT THEY TREATED THEM LIKE WHITES WERE HIGHER THEN BLACKS AND THEY COULD NOT UNDERSTAND ANYTHING.IN NIGHTJOHN THE TREATED THEM LIKE PROPERTY AND LIKE THE WERE WORTHLESS AND LIKE ANIMALS . DEPENDING ON WHERE U LIVED ALSO AFFECTED HOW WHITES TREATED THEM. AN ALSO IN ALL 3 STORIES THEY WHERE TREATED LOWER THEN WHITES