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In the short story The Child by Tiger, Thomas Wolfe portrays mans dark side through the unexpected madness of the seemingly good-natured Dick Prosser and the actions taken by the town people. This story is set in an era when people believed race determined the moral character of a person. Many viewed blacks as social outcast and hence the cause of most crimes. This is true to the extent that African Americans were committing a …

…the first gleam of dawn, shining ever brighter till the full light of day. But the way of the wicked is like the deep darkness: they do not know what makes them stumble (Proverbs 4:18).” If this Biblical - Arellano 4 manifested itself, because the town till this day knows not what made it stumble. “Men debated and discussed these things a thousand times and all of it came to nothing. No one knew the answer (Wolfe 39).”