City of God | Characters
The protagonist Reverend Thomas Pemberton (Pem), whose beneficence pervades the main storyline, is the most interesting and provocative character in City of God. This seasoned, well-read, and highly intelligent cleric undergoes a number of varied and often taxing life experiences, to emerge as the conscience of the book. Son of the prominent Suffragan Bishop of Virginia, Right Reverend John Pemberton, Pem attended St. Paul's prep school and Trinity College in Connecticut, spent a summer in Mississippi registering Negro voters, and afterward devoted a year to Peace Corps service on...
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