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*AmbiguousSituation: While it's strongly implied that Joe Christmas murdered his former lover Joanna, it's also possible that Joe Brown committed the murder to frame Christmas.
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*SinisterMinister: "Doc" Hines, who is grandfather to Joe Christmas, is a fanatical lay preacher who mixes extreme religious fundamentalism with anti-black racism in his sermons (often preached to black audiences). Hines refused to hire a doctor when his daughter was dying while giving birth to Joe, and when he found out that Joe was suspected of Joanna Burden's murder, he helped insight a lynch mob against him.
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* AwesomeMcCoolName: As is often the case with Faulkner, several of the characters have memorable names: Joe Christmas, Reverend Hightower, etc.
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Subverted despite [[spoiler: Lena's undying hope]].
* DomesticAbuser: Mr. [=McEachern=].
* TheFundamentalist: Mr. [=McEachern=].
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Subverted despite [[spoiler: Lena's undying hope]].
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Joe Brown]] is forced to flee town, but he basically gets away with everything he does, including possibly [[spoiler: Joanna's murder]], for which he was just as viable of a suspect as the person who actually took the blame for it.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Joe [[spoiler:Joe Brown]] is forced to flee town, but he basically gets away with everything he does, including possibly [[spoiler: Joanna's murder]], [[spoiler:Joanna's murder,]] for which he was just as viable of a suspect as the person who actually took the blame for it.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Joe Christmas. He has somewhat dark features, and although he can sometimes pass for white, he knows or suspects that he has non-white ancestry, probably black and/or indigenous Mexican.
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* AwesomeMcCoolName: As is often the case with Faulkner, several of the characters have memorable names: Joe Christmas, Reverend Hightower, etc.
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''Light in August'' is a novel written by Creator/WilliamFaulkner in 1932. It is an exploration of racial and biracial issues in the Southern United States and follows the story of an orphaned biracial child who is adopted by abusive parents who are fanatically religious. Joe grows up with a deep resentment of all things religious and may even [[spoiler: kill his girlfriend, Joanna,]] when she turns to religion to deal with their problems.
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''Light in August'' (1932) is a novel written by Creator/WilliamFaulkner in 1932. It is an exploration of racial that examines race, class, and religion in 1930s Mississippi.
The story begins when Lena Grove, a young pregnant woman from Alabama, arrives in [[TheDeepSouth Jefferson, Mississippi]] (a recurrent Faulkner setting) searching for the father of her child. Her story intersects with, and is then subsumed by, that of Joe Christmas, a biracialissues in the Southern United States and follows the story of an orphaned biracial child who is adopted by abusive parents who are fanatically religious. Joe grows up with a deep resentment of all things white-passing man whose fanatical religious upbringing and may even [[spoiler: kill inability to square his girlfriend, Joanna,]] when she turns to religion to deal mixed-race heritage with their problems.his life experiences sets him on a path toward inevitable tragedy.
The story begins when Lena Grove, a young pregnant woman from Alabama, arrives in [[TheDeepSouth Jefferson, Mississippi]] (a recurrent Faulkner setting) searching for the father of her child. Her story intersects with, and is then subsumed by, that of Joe Christmas, a biracial
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* IdenticalStranger: Joanna's namesake is her father's first wife, Juana, who looked almost exactly like his dead mother.
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''Light in August'' is a novel written by WilliamFaulkner in 1932. It is an exploration of racial and biracial issues in the Southern United States and follows the story of an orphaned biracial child who is adopted by abusive parents who are fanatically religious. Joe grows up with a deep resentment of all things religious and may even [[spoiler: kill his girlfriend, Joanna,]] when she turns to religion to deal with their problems.
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''Light in August'' is a novel written by WilliamFaulkner Creator/WilliamFaulkner in 1932. It is an exploration of racial and biracial issues in the Southern United States and follows the story of an orphaned biracial child who is adopted by abusive parents who are fanatically religious. Joe grows up with a deep resentment of all things religious and may even [[spoiler: kill his girlfriend, Joanna,]] when she turns to religion to deal with their problems.
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* SignificantMonogram: Joe Christmas. And he's 33!
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* HappyEnding: Although it's not a classic happy ending, there is a little hope--Lena is actively searching for her place in the world rather than constantly running and denying like Joe Christmas. This suggests that maybe her life won't be so tragic, that maybe she'll be able to begin again.
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''Light in August'' is a novel written by WilliamFaulkner in 1932. It is an exploration of racial and biracial issues in the Southern United States and follows the story of an orphaned biracial child who is adopted by abusive parents who are fanatically religious. Joe grows up with a deep resentment of all things religious and may even [[spoiler: kill his girlfriend, Joanna,]] when she turns to religion to deal with their problems.
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!!Contains Examples Of:
* AbusiveParents: Mr. [=McEachern=] is abusive towards Joe and Mrs. [=McEachern=] is something of an enabler, causing Joe to hate her even more than Mr. [=McEachern=].
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Near the end of the novel, the narrative focus suddenly shifts to Percy Grimm, who has been of no significance to the story up to that point (but who will soon become very significant).
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Subverted despite [[spoiler: Lena's undying hope]].
* DomesticAbuser: Mr. [=McEachern=].
* TheFundamentalist: Mr. [=McEachern=].
* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Joe Christmas, whose ethnicity no one is initially sure of.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Joe Brown]] is forced to flee town, but he basically gets away with everything he does, including possibly [[spoiler: Joanna's murder]], for which he was just as viable of a suspect as the person who actually took the blame for it.
* SignificantMonogram: Joe Christmas.
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!!Contains Examples Of:
* AbusiveParents: Mr. [=McEachern=] is abusive towards Joe and Mrs. [=McEachern=] is something of an enabler, causing Joe to hate her even more than Mr. [=McEachern=].
* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: Near the end of the novel, the narrative focus suddenly shifts to Percy Grimm, who has been of no significance to the story up to that point (but who will soon become very significant).
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Subverted despite [[spoiler: Lena's undying hope]].
* DomesticAbuser: Mr. [=McEachern=].
* TheFundamentalist: Mr. [=McEachern=].
* HalfBreedDiscrimination: Joe Christmas, whose ethnicity no one is initially sure of.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Joe Brown]] is forced to flee town, but he basically gets away with everything he does, including possibly [[spoiler: Joanna's murder]], for which he was just as viable of a suspect as the person who actually took the blame for it.
* SignificantMonogram: Joe Christmas.
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