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Christmas steals money from mrs.
The minister accuses byron of using the situation to his advantage and that his kindness and charity toward lena mask less selfless and more carnal and insidious desires.
A summary of part x section10 in william faulkner s light in august.
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Annoyed by the rowdiness christmas holds brown still and hits him repeatedly.
After midnight two nights before the fire and the murder joe christmas is in bed unable to sleep.
Hightower accuses byron of having helped brown betray christmas dooming christmas to death.
He finds hightower sleeping in a deck chair in his small backyard his hands folded peacefully over a book.
Brown casts racial slurs at christmas but eventually quiets and settles into a deep sleep.
Joe brown stumbles into the cabin the two men share drunk and laughing.
Chapter 16 byron finds reverend hightower sleeping in the yard when he arrives to tell his friend of joe christmas s capture.
Mceachern to buy bobbie gifts.
At first he is horrified and slaps her but afterward he keeps seeing her and starts calling her his whore one day christmas and bobbie are at a dance when mceachern shows up and starts threatening them.
Eventually christmas learns that bobbie is a sex worker.
Hightower wakes up and slightly bewildered greets byron.
Light in august s main protagonist joe christmas also stands as one of the novel s most enigmatic characters an angry man he is a shadow figure who walks the fringes treading neither lightly nor comfortably in both the black and white worlds.
Like many of faulkner s novels the theme of female sexuality has an important place in light in august.