FratFiles

• Save Paper

A Gathering of Old Men (1983 Knopf Edition) In the novel A Gathering of Old Men, Ernest J. Gaines, portrays the Novel through the eyes of individual narrators involved on the events of the day. The novel focuses on a group of cowardly black men who finally stop running and stand up for themselves for their years of suffering. In the bayou country of deepest Louisiana, in the late 1970s, a Cajun farmer is found shot dead. At the scene there is one young white woman and about 18 old black men, each holding a shotgun. The sheriff is pretty sure who killed the white guy, hardly any of the old fellows standing around could hit the side of a barn. But the Sheriff's interrogations, punctuated by slaps and threats, fail to crack or resolve their conflicting and confusing stories. Every single one claims guilt, though the dead man was killed with but one shot, and they promise a riot at the courthouse if the sheriff makes an arrest. Meanwhile, they wait for the inevitable lynch mob that is......

View the rest of this paper...

Approximate Word Count: 305
Approximate Pages: 2 (250 words per double-spaced page)

Similar Essays

1. Gathering Of Old Men
   

   Gathering Of Old Men By: Joey In A Gathering of Old Men, by Ernest J. Gaines, racism plays a huge part of life in the south. When a white man is found dead; his family and friends

2. A Gathering Of Old Men
   

   A Gathering Of Old Men by: marisa The equality of blacks versus white and Cajuns after the Civil Rights Movement was something still to be achieved. Although blacks had most of

3. A Gathering Of Old Men
   

   A gathering of Old Men A Gathering of Old Men (1983 Knopf Edition) In the novel A Gathering of Old Men, Ernest J. Gaines, portrays the Novel through the eyes of individual

4. A Gathering Of Old Men
   

   A Gathering of old men A Gathering of Old Men The integration of the white and black races is the most remarkable event of the second half of this century, surpassed only by two

5. Gathering Of Old Men
   

   GATHERING OF OLD MEN A Gathering of Old Men by Earnest J. Gaines is a great novel about race relations in the south. The novel begins with a child narrator who relates the report