A Gathering of Old Men
The integration of the white and black races is the most remarkable event of the second half of this century, surpassed only by two world wars in its significance. A Gathering of Old Men is a remarkable mystery about a young white woman and seventeen old black men in an isolated Louisiana township, each of whom confess to the murder of a brutal Cajun farmer. The simple symbols used in A Gathering of Old Men have a great impact on Gaines’ audience. These symbols are the tractor and the sugar cane. The tractor symbolizes an image of the present, whereas the cane represents the days of the past when the blacks worked the land. The old black men are strong-minded, but the Cajun farmers’ changes are huge and demoralizing. The Cajuns farmers’ changes to the way of life means the destruction of the sugar cane fields. This is turn destroys the old men’s pasts. The old men’s ancestors cultivated the cane fields long before any of the present ch
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Approximate Word count = 641
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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