![]() ![]() It focuses on one character, then shifts to another. The book is written in third person omniscient. ![]() Themes include the search for identity and how individuals are oppressed by racism, patriarchy, and religious zealotry. The plot centers around a criminal act of murder and arson. ![]() Byron Bunch is a nondescript, poor, hardworking, quiet man whom no one notices. Joanna Burden, now living alone on a large property, is part of an abolitionist family that has been ostracized for years by their rural southern community. ![]() Gail Hightower is a disgraced reverend who is plagued by his family’s past and his wife’s scandalous death. Lena Grove is in an unwed pregnant young woman looking for the father of her unborn child. He is searching for his place in the world. Joe Christmas is an orphan who is abused as a child and believes he is of mixed racial ancestry but has no proof. They are viewed as outsiders because they do not adhere to social norms. Published in 1932, this classic American southern gothic novel, set during Prohibition, follows the intersecting lives of five people not following a traditional path in life. ![]()
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