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    Quick Guide: A Gathering of Old Men
    Quick Guide: A Gathering of Old Men
    Quick Guide: A Gathering of Old Men
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    Quick Guide: A Gathering of Old Men

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    The novel is set on the Marshall Plantation in Bayonne Louisiana, a fictional setting. Beau Baton is the Cajun work boss there. Just before the beginning of the novel, he is murdered.

    Candy Marshall is also a partial owner of the plantation. She is also the general overseer. She is the one who discovers Beau’s dead body outside Mathu’s house. Candy quickly makes a belief that Mathu killed Beau, but Mathu is her foster father and she thinks that she must protect him at any cost.

    Quick Guide: A Gathering of Old Men
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    Chapter One: Introduction
    Chapter Two: Plot Overview
    Chapter Three: Characters
    Chapter Four: Complete Summary
    Chapter Five: Critical Analysis

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRaja Sharma
    Release dateApr 17, 2015
    ISBN9781311685025
    Quick Guide: A Gathering of Old Men
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      Quick Guide: A Gathering of Old Men

      Copyright

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      Chapter One: Introduction

      A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines was first published in 1983. The story is set on a Louisiana cane plantation in the 1970s. The story of the novel explores the issue of racial discrimination and a bond which can’t be usurped.

      The author, Ernest J. Gaines, was born on 15th of January, 1933, on the River Lake Plantation, in Oscar, Louisiana. Manuel and Adrienne Gaines, the author’s parents, were the workers on the plantation.

      When Ernest was only eight years old, he started working on the plantation too. When he was nine years old, he was paid fifty cents a day for digging potatoes.

      Ernest is the oldest of his siblings, eight brothers and three sisters. His Aunt Augusteen had a great influence on his early life. She did not have legs, but when the elders in the house went to work, she used to take care of the children.

      Young Ernest was highly influenced by Aunt Augusteen’s determination and strength. When he was fifteen years old, the family moved to Vallejo California in the year 1948. Now Ernest was able to get better education than he used to receive in the South.

      Since he was very hard working from his early years, he began to read extensively. He was particularly interested in reading the works of the Russian novelists Tolstoy, Turgenev, and Gogol. Later in his life, he admitted that the Russian novelists taught him to write about rural people.

      Having successfully completed high school, he joined Vallejo Junior College. He also served in the army for two years.

      His first story was published in a magazine in 1956. It was a small San Francisco magazine called ‘Transfer.’

      Ernest graduated from San Francisco State College in 1957. In the same year, he was able to win a Wallace Stegner Fellowship to study creative writing at Stanford.

      Gaines devoted himself completely to the art of writing. He once mentioned that he writes five hours a day, five days a week. His hard work eventually paid off. His first novel Catherine Carmier was published in 1964. After that, he wrote seven other novels: Of Love and Dust, Bloodline, A Long Day in November, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, In My Father’s House, A Gathering of Old Men, and A Lesson Before Dying.

      When his books A Lesson Before Dying, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, and A Gathering of Old Men were made into television movies, Gaines received immense amount of popularity.

      At present, the author is a professor at the University of Southwestern Louisiana.

      In Southern fiction and African-American fiction, Ernest Gaines has made his highly distinguished place. All his novels and short stories present the lives of the people, folklore, and dialects of rural Louisiana.

      According to Ernest Gaines, his work is highly influenced by Faulkner. He often refers to Faulkner in his writing. He was also inspired by Hemingway.

      Chapter Two: Plot Overview

      The novel is set on the Marshall Plantation in Bayonne Louisiana, a fictional setting. Beau Baton is the Cajun work boss there. Just before the beginning of the novel, he is murdered.

      Candy Marshall is also a partial owner of the plantation. She is also the general overseer. She is the one who discovers Beau’s dead body outside Mathu’s house. Candy quickly makes a belief that Mathu killed Beau, but Mathu is her foster father and she thinks that she must protect him at any cost.

      Candy immediately calls people from the plantation to Mathu’s

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