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What do you find interesting about the way in which Frazier presents Inman and Veasey’s encounter with Junior?

     Frazier presents Inman and Veasey, who encountered Junior, is an interesting one because we at first see Junior as a man who is loyal and caring, however at further dissection we see him as a cruel, manipulative and calculating man, who is the source of all evil, because this novel is about evil.

Frazier uses languages to describe Junior, he is described as a: “Great bush burnsides fuzzed out to his jawbone peered from under the brim’s shadow with dark eyes, the lids swollen and hooded as a raptor’s.” This gives an image of a man who is quite “old”, however the words such as: “shadow…dark eyes” suggest  to me that he is the meaning of true evil, and that Inman and Veasey shall be in danger if they stay with him.

Later on the novel, when Inman and Veasey go to Junior’s house, Frazier uses animal symbolism such as “cocks…three legged, patchy-haired dog.” Which brings that this world is not a pleasant one, and evil roams everywhere, also that this world is not safe at all.

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Frazier makes us the audience despise Junior because when the “dog” is kicked and is thought to be dead, he tell us that: “I don’t give a shit one way or the other.” Frazier makes distance away from him, and proves that evil has no heart.

Frazier uses the theme of food, between the encounter with Junior, Veasey and Inman, we are told that food “smell of rank meat cooking.” This suggests that the food and smell is horrible and this tells us that Junior is the same, that he is cruel.

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