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As the novel unfolds in the small town of Sam Dent, New York the characters reveal exactly what happened on the day of the accident—January 27, 1990—the immediate reaction of the people involved, and how each of the four characters is changed by the accident.
- The Sweet Hereafter Character Analysis
Dolores cares for her husband, Abbott Driscoll, who was...
- The Sweet Hereafter Character Analysis
Dolores cares for her husband, Abbott Driscoll, who was partially paralyzed by a stroke in the 1980s. Dolores is very familiar with the roads of Sam Dent, the subtle changes in weather and driving conditions, and the possible dangers from other drivers.
In The Sweet Hereafter, how do characters explain the tragedy and what does Billy say about it? Why might Russell Banks have written The Sweet Hereafter using multiple points of view?
Nov 27, 2019 · Summary: The Sweet Hereafter is a film about trauma. After a fatal bus crash that kills almost all of a town’s children, a lawyer tries to rouse some of the victims’ families to pursue a class action suit. The young girl, who is the sole child to survive the crash, and also a survivor of.
The Sweet Hereafter dramatizes the emotional impact of a school-bus accident on the injured survivors, the families of the victims, and the people of the small mountain town of Sam Dent, New York.
In The Sweet Hereafter, as in his previous novels The Book of Jamaica (1980) and Affliction (1989), Banks uses multiple points of view, telling his story of a school-bus accident in a small...
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By setting the engine to a Tragedy that focuses on a horrific past and a Main Character who refuses to back down, the Dramatica theory of story predicts that Mitchell (Ian Holm) would be motivated by Chaos--namely his daughter's random and upsetting phone calls.
