Unnamed Negro Messenger 2

Submitted by sfr on Tue, 2019-08-06 15:31
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1193
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Unnamed Negro Messenger 2
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Unnamed Negro Messenger 2
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?: 
Yes
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The narrator of Light in August identifies the black man who rides to the Sheriff's house in Jefferson "on a saddleless mule" to report Christmas' violent disruption of the "revival meeting" at "the negro church" only as "the messenger" (322, 323). He is anxious to convince the Sheriff that the blacks had not been "bothering" Christmas beforehand (324).

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