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 …showed first 75 words of 912 total…

…showed last 75 words of 912 total…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).”