Benjamin Jackson Edwards Character Analysis Essay
From the outset, it is difficult to impart sympathy upon the reader for the loss of Benjamin Edwards without first understanding who he was, and why he would be so dearly missed by the townspeople of this little hamlet in New York.
Benjamin Jackson Edwards was seventeen years of age, and was only month from taking the final step across the bridge into adulthood. He was a senior at the local high school but did not take part in any of the local cliques, nor did he seem to belong to any one particular group of students. He was intelligent, but not in the top ten of his class. He had dreams of joining his brother in the Navy; but unlike his brother, he aspired to take his place in a courtroom rather than a laboratory. He was involved in the fine …show more content…
The friends he did have regarded him as a confidant, by some, he was given the names Rabbi Benjamin, Father Ben, and Great Uncle Benjamin, because of his approachability. His friends cared for him dearly, and upon being informed of his death their sorrow was visible. Even after receiving their respective letters of comfort, written in Benjamin’s own hand, their mourning was only partially sated.
Benjamin was well travelled, but his ventures were not well known, even by the closest of his friends. At the age of six he had moved out of America with his mother and brother, and returned when he was almost eleven; but while they were on the so-called dark continent, they did not just stay in one province of one nation, they ventured north, and visited other countries.
The Edward’s Case opened in mid-March. The town was recovering from a long, cold, and difficult winter; the blanketed corpse of the Old Man had only just begun to fade away. The morning air was crisp, and a nimbus shadow veiled the town below. The trees were emerging from their wintry tombs, stretching their limbs in the breeze, awakening from their slumber. It was under this early vernal landscape that young Benjamin had vanished and that Mr. Cunningham had
Benjamin Jackson Edwards was seventeen years of age, and was only month from taking the final step across the bridge into adulthood. He was a senior at the local high school but did not take part in any of the local cliques, nor did he seem to belong to any one particular group of students. He was intelligent, but not in the top ten of his class. He had dreams of joining his brother in the Navy; but unlike his brother, he aspired to take his place in a courtroom rather than a laboratory. He was involved in the fine …show more content…
The friends he did have regarded him as a confidant, by some, he was given the names Rabbi Benjamin, Father Ben, and Great Uncle Benjamin, because of his approachability. His friends cared for him dearly, and upon being informed of his death their sorrow was visible. Even after receiving their respective letters of comfort, written in Benjamin’s own hand, their mourning was only partially sated.
Benjamin was well travelled, but his ventures were not well known, even by the closest of his friends. At the age of six he had moved out of America with his mother and brother, and returned when he was almost eleven; but while they were on the so-called dark continent, they did not just stay in one province of one nation, they ventured north, and visited other countries.
The Edward’s Case opened in mid-March. The town was recovering from a long, cold, and difficult winter; the blanketed corpse of the Old Man had only just begun to fade away. The morning air was crisp, and a nimbus shadow veiled the town below. The trees were emerging from their wintry tombs, stretching their limbs in the breeze, awakening from their slumber. It was under this early vernal landscape that young Benjamin had vanished and that Mr. Cunningham had