The Night Of The Hunter: The Preacher
Beginning of paper
When describing the preacher, John says, “His name is Harry Powell. But
the names of his fingers are E and V and O and L and E and T and A and H and
that story he tells about one hand being Hate and the other hand being Love is a
lie because they are both hate and to watch them moving scares me ....
Middle of paper
.... her because of her “unholy” vocation, he takes her up to a
room to murder her. Just as he is about to whip out the switchblade and fulfill
his holy mission, he suddenly hears “God's” voice telling him not to bother
because “there were too many of them.” At the moment when this revelation takes
place, the woman of the night sees the preacher in the midst of taking out the
knife, and she screams. The shouting brings a Negro servant, and the preacher
is forced to kill both the serva ....
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