ESSAY ON: Ernest Gaines’ “A Gathering of Old Men”

Number of Pages 5

This research paper: This 5 page report discusses Ernest Gaines’ A Gathering of Old Men, originally published in 1983, and allows the reader to hear from a number of perspectives and voices about what the experience of being African American in the South has meant to individual old (black) men. The story is about 15 old men of secluded parish of Louisiana in the 1970s. They come together as the result of the brutal killing of Beau Bouton. Each goes to the sheriff, 12-gauge shotgun in hand, and confesses to the murder and the reader learns of each of their very private, although connected, stories as they claim responsibility for Bouton’s death. Bibliography lists only the primary source.


File: D0_BWoldmen.rtf


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