Submitted by sek4q@virginia.edu on Wed, 2012-08-15 18:10
This is the "grove of locusts and mulberries across the road" from the general store where "Barn Burning" begins (6). (It's in The Hamlet that V.K. Ratliff locates this event in Grenier County, though his account doesn't specifically mention the grove.)
Submitted by sek4q@virginia.edu on Wed, 2012-08-15 18:08
This youth shouts "Barn burner!" at Ab Snopes after his trial as he leaves the general store with his two sons (5). From Sarty's perspective, this boy appears as "a face in a red haze, moonlike, bigger than the full moon," and though the boy is "half again his size," Sarty attacks him (5-6).
Submitted by garrettm@u.nort... on Mon, 2012-08-13 16:05
Over time Minnie Cooper's only social contacts become the women who live in her neighborhood - identified as both "neighbors" and "friends" in the text (175, 180). She occasionally goes to movie with them. While the lynching is going on outside town, a group of them take her to another movie, walking through the streets with her, reassuring her with "voices" that sound "like long, hovering sighs of hissing exultation" that "'There's not a Negro on the Square'" (181).
