Monday, October 26, 2015
Chapter 6 Christmas' Backstory
Beginning chapter 6, we learn more about Christmas and his backstory as an orphan in a rundown and degenerate orphanage. Being half black, he's treated far worse than the other children and we learn how much his society bases opinions off of race. On account of his accused murder, he seems more and more likely to have committed the crime. Do you guys think he's guilty?
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Yes, I believe he is guilty because chapter 5 explains Christmas' motives and possibility of Christmas' being the killer of Mrs. Joanna Burden.
ReplyDeleteI agree!
ReplyDeleteI hope he didn't do it, but it's a possibility. He's been telling himself that something was going to happen to him or he was going to do something to someone else, maybe he started to believe it.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Pamela. I hope he didn't do it either, but knowing his character now, it's hard to say that he's not the murderer. Also, adding on to what Pamela said, I feel that we are getting hints that Christmas did do it because he kept saying that he was going to do something to someone.
DeleteI am hesitant to suspect the most obvious culprit (that being Christmas). Which is why I belive if he did do it, he was justified, or pushed to do it by others. Or maybe Mrs. Burden wanted him to do it.
ReplyDeleteI believe that Christmas did murder Ms.Burden because, as seen throughout Chapter 7, Christmas see's that Mrs.McEachern does nothing to help him which makes me think that he feels women are useless. As a cause of Mrs.McEachern acts, I think Christmas grows a type of hatred towards all women. Therefore, he has no toleration for women which shows that Ms. Burden upsets Christmas and caused Christmas to murder her.
ReplyDeleteI agree and disagree with you Chris, I am also hesitant to believe that Christmas was the one, being the most obvious murderer, to commit the crime. The only actual proof right now going against him would be Brown and that I truely would not rely on. However, Christmas was saying how Ms. Burden was making him soft by showing compassion to him. This again making him weak. In addition she started praying over him, which would bring back unwanted memeroies. Both things enough motive to push him over the edge and kill Ms. Burden.
ReplyDeleteI agree, I think that the action was taken by the hatred he has with his past. So, I'm still debating whether it can be justified or not of being a murder or not.
DeleteIf Christmas did this in pure anger, or as an outlet of rage built up over his troubled childhood, what is the purpose of his character in this story? So far we are led to believe he is a protagonist, or at least some kind of symbol of unity in a (both literally and figuratively) black and white society. However, he has shown no sign of social awareness, nor any close bonds with other characters, past or present. In fact, he has shown so much inner turmoil, he seems incapable of helping, or even relating to, others. And if you couple that with a seemingly unprovoked homicide or manslaughter, he would seem to become a much more convincing antagonist.
DeleteTo answer your question, I do think he's guilty. The part I'm interested in is why he did it. We know he has violent outbursts when felt betrayed, but what could Mrs. Burden possibly have done? Also, is Mrs. Burden old? Or is she in a relationship with Christmas? I'm confused on what's going on there.
ReplyDelete"Negro" is an antiquated term. We shouldn't use it anymore.
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