The summary of Chapter 4 in Nightjohn includes slaves running away and Sarny learning the letter B. The first major event that occurs in chapter 4 is Alice, who is a slave addled in the head, wonders up to the White House and gets whipped at the Spring House. After getting whipped, Alice decides to run away. Sarny remembers two men who ran away but were caught by the dogs. One of the men was Jim, an old slave that couldn’t take it anymore, he ran away, but was caught by the dogs as he was trying to climb a tree, and the dogs ate his legs, and was killed. Pawley was the other man, he had a girlfriend on another plantation and was coming back from her to plantation to the quarters, but was caught by the dogs, they didn’t kill him, Mr. Waller