Carver: A Life in Poems - Professor Carver's Bible Class to Friends in the Klan Summary & Analysis

This Study Guide consists of approximately 27 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Carver.

Carver: A Life in Poems - Professor Carver's Bible Class to Friends in the Klan Summary & Analysis

This Study Guide consists of approximately 27 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Carver.
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Professor Carver's Bible Class to Friends in the Klan Summary

"Professor Carver's Bible Class" discusses how a student pictures God as a white man who has been watching and keeping score. The student fears God's wrath. Carver liberates him from this idea by saying God lives within oneself and speaks to a person through prayer and nature. It is a broadcast system where God contacts the person.

"Goliath" discusses there is another lynching in the South. A black man's hacked-off penis is in his mouth as his body is set on fire. A student in Carver's Bible class asks Carver, where is God now? Carver says God is here and do not lose contact with him. Never yield to fear because hate destroys a person. Carver likens them to killing Goliath, the feared Philistine warrior who was...

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