Go Down, Moses, 361 (Event)

Submitted by sfr on Fri, 2016-08-26 08:23
Text: 
Go Down, Moses
Location: 
Worsham|Habersham House in Go Down, Moses (Location)
Page Number: 
361
Order within Page: 
1
First 8-10 words of event: 
and actually looking at her for the first time,
Page Event Ends: 
361
Era: 
The Depression (1930-1940)
Characters Present: 
Molly Beauchamp
Gavin Stevens
Miss Worsham
Hamp Worsham
Mrs. Hamp Worsham
Narrative Status: 
Narrated+Consciousness
Date: 
Monday, July 15, 1940
Summary: 

In the "clean, spare bedroom" at Miss Worsham's house, Gavin looks at Mollie "for the first time"; he is struck by her smallness, and then by the sense of "solidarity" he feels among the three blacks and one white already beside the "hearth" in the room (361).

Chronological Order: 
366.00
Indeterminate Date Range: 
Keywords: 
Italics, Surprise, Hearth, Communion, Relationship:Interracial
Actions:
Perceptual›Seeing
Themes and Motifs:
Objects›Hearth | Recurring Tropes›Fire on the hearth
Aesthetics:
Narrative›Stream of consciousness narration | Recurring Episodes›Recurring event, intertextual | Symbolism›Shared humanity | Typography/Orthography›Italics

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