Man In A Corner Augustus Cain Analysis
American Literature, Section 3
10 January 2014
Man in a Corner
Augustus Cain is a good person, despite his background and upbringing he was able to emerge through the narrative. Cain is a man in the corner; his conditions determine his values and morals. He lost himself to himself and his own society. Although, he has lost himself he evolves and turns into a "soul catcher" throughout this novel many times, one of the souls he's caught was even his own. He evolved as a person through breaking the four guiding principles constantly that his father said for him to follow. The four guiding principles were that "one should always respect one's property: that it was necessary to care for protect it, to never misuse it, as it will someday be called …show more content…
This relationship tests Cain's character, will, care and decisions. She tests Cain's will during her bathing in the river. While Rosetta is bathing, Cain is half turned away; "he felt this to be some sort of test of will, a temptation he felt bound to renounce in order to prove to himself, that he wasn't common, that he wasn't like Preacher or Strofes. That he was different" (White 206). He is also attracted to her in this scene. Post Rosetta exiting the river and him glancing at her and having a hard time averting this stare. He says that "he felt shamed as a rumbling commenced down between his own legs" (White 207) as he looked between hers. When Preacher tries to rape Rosetta, Cain almost kills him out of protection for her. When Rosetta is kidnapped Cain goes and asks around for her, and says "I'm trying to help her" (White 287) and pushes onward out of his determination to save her. After saving her Cain is captured by John Brown and says that he doesn't plan to send Rosetta back to Eberly, and Brown believes him and sends him away to a settlement in Ohio called Gist. Cain and Rosetta are laying together in a cabin and Rosetta kisses him, they continue to kiss and begin to remove their clothes. Cain then thought "He knew that he was crossing a line that he could never cross back over again" (White 377) and they made
10 January 2014
Man in a Corner
Augustus Cain is a good person, despite his background and upbringing he was able to emerge through the narrative. Cain is a man in the corner; his conditions determine his values and morals. He lost himself to himself and his own society. Although, he has lost himself he evolves and turns into a "soul catcher" throughout this novel many times, one of the souls he's caught was even his own. He evolved as a person through breaking the four guiding principles constantly that his father said for him to follow. The four guiding principles were that "one should always respect one's property: that it was necessary to care for protect it, to never misuse it, as it will someday be called …show more content…
This relationship tests Cain's character, will, care and decisions. She tests Cain's will during her bathing in the river. While Rosetta is bathing, Cain is half turned away; "he felt this to be some sort of test of will, a temptation he felt bound to renounce in order to prove to himself, that he wasn't common, that he wasn't like Preacher or Strofes. That he was different" (White 206). He is also attracted to her in this scene. Post Rosetta exiting the river and him glancing at her and having a hard time averting this stare. He says that "he felt shamed as a rumbling commenced down between his own legs" (White 207) as he looked between hers. When Preacher tries to rape Rosetta, Cain almost kills him out of protection for her. When Rosetta is kidnapped Cain goes and asks around for her, and says "I'm trying to help her" (White 287) and pushes onward out of his determination to save her. After saving her Cain is captured by John Brown and says that he doesn't plan to send Rosetta back to Eberly, and Brown believes him and sends him away to a settlement in Ohio called Gist. Cain and Rosetta are laying together in a cabin and Rosetta kisses him, they continue to kiss and begin to remove their clothes. Cain then thought "He knew that he was crossing a line that he could never cross back over again" (White 377) and they made