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Rev. Gail Hightower
Mr. Hines is Milly’s father and Christmas’s grandfather. He is cruel, violent, and obsessively religious, and after Milly becomes pregnant he tries to get her to have an abortion because he is convinced that the baby’s father, who is Mexican, is black. Once Christmas is born, he abducts him and takes him to an orphanage, telling Milly and Mrs. Hines that he is dead. He then gets a job at the orphanage as a janitor in order to spy on Christmas. Years later, when Mr. Hines hears that Christmas has committed murder, he has a mental breakdown and tries to get Christmas lynched.
Mr. Hines / The Janitor Quotes in Light in August
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Chapter 15
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The town looked upon them both as being a little touched—lonely, gray in color, a little smaller than most other men and women, as if they belonged to a different race, species—even though for the next five or six years after the man appeared to have come to Mottstown to settle down for good in the small house where his wife lived, people hired him to do various odd jobs which they considered within his strength.
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Mr. Hines / The Janitor Quotes in Light in August
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Chapter 15
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The town looked upon them both as being a little touched—lonely, gray in color, a little smaller than most other men and women, as if they belonged to a different race, species—even though for the next five or six years after the man appeared to have come to Mottstown to settle down for good in the small house where his wife lived, people hired him to do various odd jobs which they considered within his strength.
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