At first he is horrified and slaps her but afterward he keeps seeing her and starts calling her his whore one day christmas and bobbie are at a dance when mceachern shows up and starts threatening them.
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Chapter 16 byron finds reverend hightower sleeping in the yard when he arrives to tell his friend of joe christmas s capture.
Thus the south of light in august seems to have at least begun to move forward yet the progress it has made is so miniscule that it only serves to highlight the progress that has not been made.
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Brown casts racial slurs at christmas but eventually quiets and settles into a deep sleep.
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Hightower accuses byron of having helped brown betray christmas dooming christmas to death.
The minister accuses byron of using the situation to his advantage and that his kindness and charity toward lena mask less selfless and more carnal and insidious desires.
Light in august s main protagonist joe christmas also stands as one of the novel s most enigmatic characters an angry man he is a shadow figure who walks the fringes treading neither lightly nor comfortably in both the black and white worlds.
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Annoyed by the rowdiness christmas holds brown still and hits him repeatedly.
Eventually christmas learns that bobbie is a sex worker.
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Hightower wakes up and slightly bewildered greets byron.
Byron immediately tells hightower that they have caught christmas in mottstown.
After midnight two nights before the fire and the murder joe christmas is in bed unable to sleep.
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Joe brown stumbles into the cabin the two men share drunk and laughing.
Mceachern to buy bobbie gifts.