Truth and identity: The novel largely deals with mistaken identity and detection. Preachers are portrayed as lying fiends who swindle people out of their money with he promise of redemption. Haze, who finds himself being called a preacher repeatedly, finally reaches the urge to act and becomes a preacher himself. As a preacher he tells how the truth about preachers is that they lie to gain followers.
Religion and Tradition: Raised by a strict religious family, Hazel is never able to completely abandon the habits he developed as a child. He feels the need to repent, and punishes himself, despite lacking a need for redemption. Similarly, Hazel becomes a preacher to teach about the lies that preachers proclaim.
Animals and instinct: Characters
Religion and Tradition: Raised by a strict religious family, Hazel is never able to completely abandon the habits he developed as a child. He feels the need to repent, and punishes himself, despite lacking a need for redemption. Similarly, Hazel becomes a preacher to teach about the lies that preachers proclaim.
Animals and instinct: Characters