Elijah Of Buxton Character Analysis

Have you ever wanted to get revenge on someone for stealing something of yours? In Elijah of Buxton, Mr. Leroy wants revenge on the Preacher so badly that he is willing to kill. The Preacher stole Mr. Leroy’s money, which he saved up to try and buy his family out of slavery. Elijah encounters some trouble when he finds a barn with six run away slaves. You will become more familiar with the characters as I evaluate how Elijah’s rock throwing skills benefit himself and others, question why the slave kept the gun from Elijah, and predict what will happen to Elijah and the slaves. There are many ways that Elijah and others benefited from his scrupulous rock throwing skills. His dad benefits from his rock throwing skills by getting a pie. Whenever their neighbor, Mrs. Brown, was baking Elijah would trade her a couple of fish for a pie. His dad disliked Elijah’s mother’s baking but pretended to like it. He was secretly happy when Elijah would bring home a pie. One time when they went for a picnic on the beach, Elijah’s mom placed …show more content…
One reason could be that they are possibly going to shoot themselves. The gun had six shots and there were six of the slaves. Elijah counted that there were six of them, but didn’t think much of it, then the slave said: ”And if you shoot a man one time he gonn die”(Curtis 316)? Elijah responded that if the bullet hits them in the head or the chest then it will. On the other hand, the slave could be asking for the gun for a different reason. The slave could be thinking of shooting the truculent white folks who captured them an hour before crossing the border. There were four people that captured the slaves, two men and one of them had two sons. They could be planning on shooting them, and if she missed the heart or head on one of two of them then she would have backup. In the end, I don’t know for sure why the slave asked if she could keep the