NCHS AP English Language

Chapter Three - L. Mill

In Chapter Three, the character who interested me most was Reverend Hightower. He is drenched in time and timelessness. To be said, he is never in the present. Either he is speaking of his grandfather back in the days of the Civil War, being killed riding through Jefferson, or he is looking out at the sunset. He is stuck out of the present. He lives and breathes his grandfather's , which is a past event that is ruling his present. Furthermore, in , time almsot seems to stand still, then does for the macabre. Hightower also stares as the sun sets in a scene that may be described as timeless as well, wathching the brilliant sun go down. Does Hightower not want ot be in the present? Does he have past regrets he wishs he could change? It is almsot as if he wishs he were no longer living but frozen in tiem somewhere, perhaps ... He does ot enjoy living, he does not look to his future, he lives in the past, where the are and where he cannot yet join them.

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posted by NCHS AP English Language III @ 8:59 AM