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Death Comes for the Archbishop (Annotated) Study Guide and Aid
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This is a 37 Page breakdown of Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop." This study aid gives detail summaries, including plots, character analysis, themes, symbols, quotations, and key facts from the work.
My study aids are well put together in an easy to read format that will guarantee success. Unlike other postings, I have included a snip below on how my study aids are written and analyzed.
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CHAPTER 1. THE CRUCIFORM TREE
Having lost his way, Bishop Latour travels through red sandhills, topped with yellow-green junipers. He and his animals have no water and suffer from great thirst. He closes his eyes, and when he opens them, he sees a juniper in the form of a cross. He stops, makes his devotions, rises refreshed. The reader sees him as "brave, sensitive, courteous." In his great need for water, he identifies with Christ's cry on the cross, "I thirst." He thinks perhaps this is the end of his life and blames himself for the suffering of his animals. He has been preoccupied with how to gain back his vicarate. Three years have elapsed since the meeting of the four men in Rome, and the Bishop has not yet taken over his vicarate.
His worldly possessions, except his books, were lost in a ship wreck in Galveston harbor. On the trip west, he injured his leg in a wagon accident and was delayed three months.
A year after leaving Mississippi, Bishop Latour and Father Vaillant rode in a wagon train into Santa Fé but the people would not accept the new Bishop without confirmation from the Bishop of Durango. Father Latour is now returning from the nearly three thousand mile round trip to Mexico and is lost on the trail.
Suddenly the attitude of the animals changes. They smell water. Soon they come upon a stream between the red hills, a small Catholic settlement that cannot believe a priest has really come.
This is a 37 Page breakdown of Willa Cather's "Death Comes for the Archbishop." This study aid gives detail summaries, including plots, character analysis, themes, symbols, quotations, and key facts from the work.
My study aids are well put together in an easy to read format that will guarantee success. Unlike other postings, I have included a snip below on how my study aids are written and analyzed.
Example Commentary
CHAPTER 1. THE CRUCIFORM TREE
Having lost his way, Bishop Latour travels through red sandhills, topped with yellow-green junipers. He and his animals have no water and suffer from great thirst. He closes his eyes, and when he opens them, he sees a juniper in the form of a cross. He stops, makes his devotions, rises refreshed. The reader sees him as "brave, sensitive, courteous." In his great need for water, he identifies with Christ's cry on the cross, "I thirst." He thinks perhaps this is the end of his life and blames himself for the suffering of his animals. He has been preoccupied with how to gain back his vicarate. Three years have elapsed since the meeting of the four men in Rome, and the Bishop has not yet taken over his vicarate.
His worldly possessions, except his books, were lost in a ship wreck in Galveston harbor. On the trip west, he injured his leg in a wagon accident and was delayed three months.
A year after leaving Mississippi, Bishop Latour and Father Vaillant rode in a wagon train into Santa Fé but the people would not accept the new Bishop without confirmation from the Bishop of Durango. Father Latour is now returning from the nearly three thousand mile round trip to Mexico and is lost on the trail.
Suddenly the attitude of the animals changes. They smell water. Soon they come upon a stream between the red hills, a small Catholic settlement that cannot believe a priest has really come.
56 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 25, 2011
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