The Ugliest Pilgrim (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Doris June Waugh
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: 1969
- Setting: A bus traveling from Spruce Pine, North Carolina, to Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Principal Characters: Violet Karl, Grady “Flick” Fliggins, Monty Harrell, An elderly white woman, Mr. Weatherman
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: African Americans, 1960’s, United States or Americans, Blacks, South or Southerners, Rape, Soldiers, Pilgrims or pilgrimages, Buses
- Locales: Spruce Pine, NC, Tulsa, OK
The Story
Violet Karl is making a pilgrimage to Tulsa, Oklahoma, to have her disfigured face healed by a prominent television evangelist. Her injury resulted from a childhood accident when she accompanied her father to chop wood, and the head of the ax came off the handle, striking her in the face.
Throughout her journey, Violet keeps a journal about the things that she sees and the people whom she meets. With each settlement through which she passes, she praises the Lord for leading her one step closer to her salvation and cure. To these comments Violet adds her...
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