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Regionalism

Setting: The Bayous, The plantations

Vernacular: "You wanta speak to Mapes?" pg. 499

-"Papa"

Cajun Country

Thomas Vincent Sullivan

Alec, Catie, Dylan, Sage

Lit Terms

About the Cajun Country

  • theme
  • ambiance- weeping willows
  • invective- fix
  • pathos- breakdown of Gil
  • anagnorisis- discovery
  • hamartia- Beau/gun

Quick Summary

About Ernest J. Gaines

"Peace Train"

  • Oldest of 12 children
  • His crippled aunt had to raise him (parents were killed)
  • Grew up in old slave quarters on the plantations
  • In 2000-was awarded the National Humanities Medal
  • In 2012-was awarded the Sidney Lanier Prize for Southern Literature
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