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Lamb in His Bosom

Lamb in His Bosom. By: Kadie Despain and Jasmin Herendeen. About the Author. Born August 26, 1903 to Elias and Levy Pafford. Youngest of seven children. Attended Waycross High School (Waycross, Georgia) Married high school English teacher, William D. Miller.

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Lamb in His Bosom

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  1. Lamb in His Bosom By: Kadie Despain and Jasmin Herendeen

  2. About the Author Born August 26, 1903 to Elias and Levy Pafford. Youngest of seven children. Attended Waycross High School (Waycross, Georgia) Married high school English teacher, William D. Miller. First Georgian writer to receive the Pulitzer Prize. Born three sons. Studied the lifestyles of Southern Georgia Died July 12, 1992 in Waynesville, North Carolina Inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2007

  3. When: Pre-Civil War Where: Northern Georgia The When and where

  4. Background Knowledge • Racial Slurs. • Slave treatment. • Women are considered child bearers and house maids. • Men are strictly providers and do all of the hard work. • Southern lifestyle.

  5. The Carver Family • Vince – Husband of Seen – Dies of old age. • Seen- Wife of Vince. • Lonzo- Marries Cean; Son of Dicie • Cean- Daughter of Vince and Seen; gives birth to twelve children. • Lias- Middle son of Vince and Seen Carver • Jasper- Eldest son of Vince and Seen Carver • Margot – Marries Lias Carver. • Jacob – Youngest of Vince and Seen Carver.

  6. The Good Versus the Bad The Good Keeps the reader drawn through use of a dramatic series. Stylistically and thematically entertaining Use of diction and syntax Excellent in portraying the (poor) Southern Lifestyle. The development of each character as they go through life - how each character changes.

  7. The Bad Slow start. Not very climatic – Very stagnant story line. No clear plot. Hard to understand.

  8. Nothing but Hardships “ Somewhere about her was a rattlesnake… turning she saw glittering eyes in a small, ugly head hanging there close to her eyes.” - Caroline Miller, page 22 “The painters were after her new-born child and her… a great house cat lay stretched along the floor between her back door and her high bed.” - Caroline Miller, page 150

  9. Meaning Behind the Title “He had promised, and repromised to bear her like a lamb in His bosom, never, no, never, no never to forsake her.” • Caroline Miller, page 208

  10. “I’ll be knittin’ ye stockin’s ‘fore cold weather.”He watched her hands in stubborn embarrassment:“Better knit ye some, ye own self. . . .”She said:“I wasn’t askin’ fer no pretty things such as these, Lonzo.”He explained simply:“I jes’ give ‘em to ye, to be a-givin’, little un.” Example of Southern Diction

  11. Critical Exclaim “It has a wonderful freshness about it; not simply the freshness of a new writer, but the freshness of a new world . . .” -- The New York Times

  12. References http://www.amazon.com/Lamb-Bosom-Modern-Southern-Classics/dp/156145074X http://www.peanut.org/users/mike/text/Caroline.htm http://www.libs.uga.edu/gawriters/miller.html

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