The author tells the story from so many different perspectives in order to show how each character reacts to the situation. The different viewpoints of the characters represent the black and white communities of Marshall and The Bayou. Some of the voices were distinctive such as Mapes, Candy, and Lou Dimes. Others were less distinctive. The main message from each of the 17 voices was to stand his or her own ground.
2. The role of the black women played in this novel, for the most part, was to not fight Luke Will and his gang, but Candy was different. She wanted to stand up to Mapes and the others. The men do not listen to the women who do not want to fight. They"re going to stand up to Mapes, Luke Will, and the others. The black men want to put an end to the white peoples reign over the blacks.
3. The old men gathered together at a white woman's bidding because Miss Merle had raised her (Candy) in their community. She is looked at differently then the other white women in the surrounding area. Their assumption is that Candy shot Beau. After Candy tells what happens, the old men believe that Beau got what he deserved.
4. Mat is saying that he is confident in his beliefs, but he is shocked to hear that a kind soul like Candy would kill another being. Only God would give her a sign to do such a thing. .
5. The old men lingered at the graveyard so everyone could meet there. They also did it to pay their respects to their dead relatives. The cemetery represents a safe haven for all the old men. For some it may give them courage to stick with Candy in showing the white people their faults. .
6. The right thing for Candy to do is stick up for her black godfather. She got herself into this position by admitting to Mapes that she shot Beau. In Candy's case, the only thing that is her fault is sending for all the old black men. The right thing for Mapes to do is to go to the house and question the old men without any violent outbursts.
A Gathering of Old Men A Gathering of Old Men, by Ernest J. ... He has been killed in the yard of an old, black worker, named "Mathu". ... Mapes, is a white sheriff who traditionally deals with the black people by the use of intimidation and force, finds himself in a frustrating situation of having to deal with a group of old black men, each carrying a shotgun and each claiming that he shot Beau Boutan. ...
Gaines sets his book, A Gathering of Old Men, in the 70's on the sugarcane plantations of Louisiana. ... This story revolves around a young white woman, Candy, several older black men and the death of a Cajun, Beau, to whom they all confess to killing. ... The gathering of the men showed strength and determination to stand up finally after a lifetime of submission and suppression. ... They were able to bridge the gap between the ways of the old South to the ways of the new South. They do this by not backing down to Luke Will and his men and fighting for a voice and their freedom. ...
A Gathering of Old Men 1. ... The old men lingered at the graveyard so everyone could meet there. ... The cemetery represents a safe haven for all the old men. ... The only thing that Mapes is guilty of is hitting the old men. ... It's a fight between Luke Will, his boys, and all the old men. ...
In the novel A Gathering of Old Men, Ernest J. ... The story illustrates two worlds, the inner world is the life in Marshall Quarters, the old black men and their family; the outer world being everything outside the Quarters, Fix, the Cajuns, and even the white people. ... Each of the old men tells a story of pain due to oppression by the white man. ... Candy refers to the old black men as her people, "I will protect my people" (19). ... When the black men narrate they speak with bad English, for example, Chimley says "Now, I ain't even stepped in the house 'fore that old woman st...
A Gathering of Old Men "Answers" 1. ... They have some say, but the men disregard them and treat them as slaves. ... The women seem to just be there for the men's needs. 3. ... The scene of the old men lingering in the graveyard has several important meanings. ... But, I also think that he realized he was an old man, and going to fight without his boys was like going to war without guns. ...
Gathering Blue Essay- by Lois Lowry The book I read was called Gathering Blue. ... What she says goes basically cause everyone fears her, even men. ... As they got older, people would add a syllable to their names. ... Annabella was a white haired old woman and she was very smart. Then there was Jo, she was a small, young tyke as they explained it, and she was to be the next singer of their village when she got older. ...
When he was seventeen years old he broke his apprenticeship agreement with his brother and ran away (Eberle 19-25). ... Ben addressed the sayings to young men who were poor, much like he had been. ... He had previously organized a club of young men called the Junto. They met once a week to discuss papers that the men had prepared on something that they had a genuine interest in (Fleming 28-29). ... In London, during the years just before the American Revolution, Franklin was busy gathering support for the colonies through the British press (Donovan 101). ...
12 Angry Men Paper The jury member I chose to do my paper on was Mr. ... Davis used was gathering information. ... Davis was a leader was when the group was discussing evidence, like the knife and the old man's testimony. ... Davis used task messages such as initiating and gathering information, making him effective as a communicator. ...
In the book A Gathering of Old Men, a perfect example of somebody snapping is a fifty-year-old man named Charlie. ... All my natural-born black life I took the busing and never hit back,"(A Gathering of Old Men 189) meaning that 50 years of being maltreated provoked him to shoot Beau. ... (A Gathering of Old Men 190) Charlie always mentioning that he's a man, tells Mapes that "you don't talk to a man like that sheriff, not when he reach half hundred." ... Chimley said (Gathering of Old Men 31). ... Advice on how to be a man and men don't run. ...
