The Morning watch.

Description:

***The Morning Watch explores the thoughts and feelings of 12-year-old Richard, a student at an unnamed Episcopal*** boarding school (based on Agee's schooling at St. Andrew's-Sewanee School in Sewanee, Tennessee), over the course of a few hours in the early morning of ***Good Friday in 1923***. ***Part I*** opens with Richard waking up to participate in the 4 AM shift of a nightlong prayer vigil in the school's chapel; ***Part II*** he goes to the chapel, prays, and decides to attend the 4:30 shift as well; ***Part III*** he leaves the chapel at 5 AM with two other boys, and they all run off to swim in the lake rather than go straight back to their dormitory, knowing ***they will be punished for this infraction.*** On their way to the lake, Richard discovers the intact shed skin of a locust, clinging to a tree; at the lake, the boys swim and then kill a snake; as they head back to school, Richard takes the locust shell with him.--**Wickipedia**

subjects: Church,  Prayer,  Religion,  Feeling,  Emotions,  Beliefs,  Adult,  Stories,  Books,  Classic,  Literature,  20th Century,  Coming of age,  Narrative,  American literature,  Americana novelSemi-fact,  Semi-fiction,  Semi-non-fiction,  Semi-autobiograpy,  Cathedrals,  Chapels,  Christian,  Boarding school,  Corporal punishment,  snakes,  logust,  swimming hole,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  Boarding schools,  Good and evil,  Fiction

People: God,  Christ,  Jesus Christ,  Jews,  Christians,  Satan,  the Devil

Places: Sewanee,  Tennessee

Times: 1923