" In My Father's House" by Ernest J Gaines

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"Ernest J. Gaines' novel, In My Father's House, tells the tale of Philip Martin, a minister and civil rights leader, a responsible husband and father, and a pillar of the black community in a small, rural Louisiana town who is forced to confront the sins of his past when the son he abandoned long before shows up in the town to seek revenge against the father he hates. The story is not only about the reckoning of an individual human being with the wreckage of his past, it is just as importantly the story of the division between black fathers and black sons, a theme which is crucial to an understanding of this and other works by Gaines. These aspects of the novel will be explored in the context of the painful beginning of the self-discovery of Martin in the novel."

This novel is unlike many other works by Gaines in that it

More papers on " In My Father's House" by Ernest J Gaines:

• Analytical Essay # 26269 : "In My Father's House"
• Book Review # 92084 : "Ernest J. Gaines' "A Lesson before Dying"

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