Unnamed Residents of Doane's Mill

Submitted by sfr on Sat, 2014-07-12 16:51
Text: 
Light in August
Character Key: 
Unnamed Residents of Doane's Mill
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Unnamed Residents of Doane's Mill
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Unnamed Residents of Doane's Mill
Race: 
White
Gender: 
Multi Gender Group
Class: 
Lower Class
Rank: 
Minor
Vitality: 
Alive
Occupation: 
Production
Specific Job: 
Lumbering
First Mentioned: 
Road from Winterbottom's Farm to Varner's Store in Light in August (Location)
Home: 
Doane's Mill, Alabama in Light in August (Location)
Biography: 

Doane's Mill has a transient population of men and women. A few of them, including Lucas Burch, are "young bachelors" (6), but there are also "perhaps five families" living there and working "in the mill or for it" when Lena comes to live with McKinley and his family (4). One of these people is the "foreman" who serves as Lucas Burch's pretext for abandoning Lena Grove in Doane's Mill; another may be this foreman's "cousin," or he may be a figment of Burch's imagination (19). As a group, the workers arrived in Doane's Mill by freight car to extract lumber and will be freighted away when the area is deforested.

Note: 
deforestation, lumbering
Individual or Group: 
Group
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