<p> Typescript Form for Miscue Analysis</p><p>Book Title: Going North Author: Janice N. Harrington</p><p>1. At Big Mama’s house everyone sits around the supper table talking 1.______about life up North.</p><p>2. Everyone talks and talks about how much better the North is, how 2.______Daddy can find a good job there, and how I can go to a better school.</p><p>3. But isn’t it good here? 3.______</p><p>4. Can’t we just stay? 4.______</p><p>5. I don’t want to go. 5.______</p><p>6. I want to stay in Big Mama’s kitchen, helping her churn the butter up-down, up-down, taw-whomp, taw-whomp, swapping stories, and 6.______watching Big Mama knife-scrape a sweet potato, dragging its blade across orange pulp and sharing a sweet treat.</p><p>7. “I don’t want to go,” I tell Big Mama. 7.______</p><p>8. But Going-North day hurries to our door like it’s tired of our 8.______slowpokey ways. 9. Everybody comes to say goodbye: uncles, aunts, cousins, too, 9.______Brother, Baby Sister, and me picked up, put down, passed around, and tickle-twirled all over the place.</p><p>10. Everyone says, “Goodbye, we’ll miss you.” 10.______</p><p>11. I slip off my shoes and push my feet into the rusty sand. 11.______</p><p>12. I wish my toes were roots. 12.______</p><p>13. I’d grow into a pin oak and never go away. 13.______</p><p>14. Would they let me stay if I were a tree? 14.______</p><p>15. Car loaded, everything packed, goodbyes said. 15.______</p><p>16. We’re almost ready. 16.______</p><p>17. I run to Big Mama one last time. 17.______</p><p>18. She hugs me tights. 18.______</p><p>19. “Take care of your mama,” she says. 19.______20. “Be a good girl, Jessie. 20.______</p><p>21. Y’all take care.” 21.______</p><p>22. “Bye-bye, Big Mama!” 22.______</p><p>23. “Bye-bye!” 23.______</p><p>24. Our station wagon pulls away, banana bright, rolling, rolling 24.______down a red dirt hill.</p><p>25. We’re going North. 25.______</p><p>26. “Goodbye, Big Mama.” 26.______</p><p>27. “Goodbye Popalop.” 27.______</p><p>28. We’re going North, leaving Alabama far behind. 28.______</p><p>29. We’re going North in a yellow station wagon, Mama, Daddy, 29.______Brother, Baby Sister, and me looking out, looking at the world going by, red sand and cotton fields, pines marking the sky like black crayons, listening to the tires make a road-drum, a road beat: good luck, good luck, good luck. 30. Kudzu vines covering everything, kudzu leaves like big green 30.______hands clapping, clapping and waving to us.</p><p>31. Brother pointing at all he sees, Baby Sister bouncing on my lap, lap, lap, and Mama helping Daddy, checking the map. 31.______</p><p>32. Daddy’s eye steady on the road, then studying the gas gauge, measuring the miles. 32.______</p><p>33. Going by an old man selling peaches, going by tin roofs, front porches, going by brown girls jumping rope, rope, rope, brown legs 33.______flying high.</p><p>34. Maybe later they’ll play Little Sally Walker. 34.______</p><p>35. Do they play Little Sally Walker in the North? 35.______</p><p>36. Do they play ring games? 36.______</p><p>37. Oh, wipe your weepin’ eye, Oh, wipe your weepin’ eye. 37.______</p><p>38. Cotton fields stretch out, brown shoulders dragging croaker sacks, brown fingers picking cotton under a red pepper sun. 38.______</p><p>39. We’re going on. 39______40. Cotton fields getting smaller, going by. 40.______</p><p>41. Even the people getting smaller, going by. 41.______</p><p>42. Mississippi on and on. 42.______</p><p>43. Mississippi, Mississippi going by. 43.______</p><p>44. “Lunchtime, are you hungry?” 44.______</p><p>45. Picnic basket and paper plates, Big Mama’s tea cakes, potato salad and lemonade, cold chicken and corn bread. 45.______</p><p>46. The car smells like chicken. 46.______</p><p>47. Our fingers taste salty sweet. 47.______</p><p>48. We’re riding in a lemonade car, a yellow station wagon, heading North. 48.______</p><p>49. Sitting in the back, I see a big world. 49.______</p><p>50. I hear the tires bumping, beating out good bye, good bye, good bye. 50.______51. Down the road and the baby’s crying. 51.______</p><p>52. Mama’s singing, hush, hush. 52.______</p><p>53. Brother’s fussing, hush, hush. 53.______</p><p>54. Daddy’s watching the gas gauge. 54.______</p><p>55. “It’s running out, child, running out.” 55.______</p><p>56. “Where will we go, Daddy? 56.______</p><p>57. Where will we go?” 57.______</p><p>58. “Hush now, quiet now, Daddy’s got to drive.” 58.______</p><p>50. Gas gauge getting low, getting low. 59.______</p><p>51. Can’t stop just anywhere. 60.______</p><p>52. Only the Negro stations, only the Negro stores. 61.______62. Mama’s praying, sees another town up ahead. 62.______</p><p>63. Daddy’s searching, looking out, holding the wheel knuckle-tight. 63.______</p><p>64. Even Brother seems to know. 64.______</p><p>65. Baby’s quiet, won’t even cry. 65.______</p><p>66. Will we make it? 66.______</p><p>67. Will this place serve Negroes? 67.______</p><p>68. Gas gauge says almost gone, almost gone. 68.______</p><p>69. Joe’s Gas up ahead, plenty of Negro faces, plenty of Negro smiles. 69.______</p><p>70. Daddy breathes a heavy sigh. 70.______</p><p>71. Mama hugs Baby Sister tight, tight, tight. 71.______</p><p>72. Brother wants candy. 72.______73. Me too! 73.______</p><p>74. Me too! 74.______</p><p>75. Joe comes smelling like gasoline and fills our tank. 75.______</p><p>76. “Y’all cutting it close,” he says. 76.______</p><p>77. Daddy signs and shakes his head. 77.______</p><p>78. We’re on the road again, moving fast, car filled with gasoline, Brother wearing a chocolate bar. 78.______</p><p>79. Mama’s hand on Daddy’s shoulder. 79.______</p><p>80. Long road, but we’re moving fast, moving fast. 80.______</p><p>81. I think about Daddy’s hands all knuckle-tight. 81.______</p><p>82. I think about Mama’s prayer and the gas gauge running out. 82.______</p><p>83. Maybe the North will be better – maybe, maybe, maybe. 83.______84. Arkansas, now, and it’s getting late. 84.______</p><p>85. Still a long way to go. 85.______</p><p>86. Sister’s asleep on Mama’s lap, Brother’s curled up puppy-tight, 86.______but I’m looking out.</p><p>87. Ink-black, soot-black, skillet-black night. 87.______</p><p>88. The road hurtling by. 88.______</p><p>89. Mama and Daddy talking in low voices. 89.______</p><p>90. Outside I see stars and the Big Dipper. 90.______</p><p>91. We’re following the Big Dipper going North. 91.______</p><p>92. More stars than I can count, blue and white like dashboard lights. 92.______</p><p>93. They’re gleaming in and I’m looking out. 93.______</p><p>94. Sleepy now. 94.______95. Nighttime rolling by. 95.______</p><p>96. The road whispers, the tires mumble good night, good night, good 96.______night.</p><p>97. Daybreak, and Daddy beside the road, tired, stretching, seeing the 97.______way ahead, all of us waking up.</p><p>98. Missouri stone, Missouri hills, are we there yet? 98.______</p><p>99. Almost there. 99.______</p><p>100. We’re leaving Dixie, almost there. 100.______</p><p>101. “Will I like the North?” 101.______</p><p>102. “Honey, I don’t know.” 102.______</p><p>103. The road-drums, the road-beats don’t know, don’t know, don’t 103.______know.</p><p>104. Are we there yet? 104.______</p><p>105. Almost there. 105.______106. Will we be there soon? 106.______</p><p>107. Almost there. 107.______</p><p>108. And then – 108.______</p><p>109. Welcome to Nebraska, the sign says. 109.______</p><p>110. This is it? 110.______</p><p>111. No more cotton fields, no more red sand, no more June bugs on 111.______a cotton string.</p><p>112. Instead, I see black dirt everywhere, black magic, North magic. 112.______</p><p>113. Nebraska rolling by on a grassy rug. 113.______</p><p>114. Brother presses his nose against the window. 114.______</p><p>115. Baby Sister sniffle-sighs, sniffle-sighs. 115.______</p><p>116. Mama soothes us with her smile. 116.______117. But I just keep staring out, looking and looking. 117.______</p><p>118. Until finally I see… 118.______</p><p>119. Lin-coln, Lin-coln, Lincoln, Nebraska! 119.______</p><p>120. “We’re here now,” Daddy says. 120.______</p><p>121. “Going to start a brand-new life. 121.______</p><p>122. We’re going to be pioneers.” 122.______</p><p>123; Daddy, Mama, Brother, Baby Sister, and me, all pioneers, all looking out, hearing a heart-drum be brave, be brave. 123.______</p><p>124. Be brave. 124.______</p><p>125. We’re together. 125.______</p><p>126. Pioneers. 126.______</p>