Midnight is about southern living in Savannah Georgia. “Savannah is a beautiful place that has been completely overlooked by the rest of the country and writers. The story would not have worked as well in a different setting.”(LRC, 2). The book discusses different people and how they lived. For example, Savannah had drag queens to lawyers living in that town. Unfortunately, the most popular guy was the first white man that had been tried in court 4 times for murder. �

The conflicts in Berendt’s book are person versus society and also person versus person. For example, the drag queen, Chablis, tries to win over all guys because she thought she was hot stuff. Although she won over her boyfriend, she cant win any other guy because they find out what she was hiding under her clothes. Chablis had a conflict with the author. He was going to a party, and told Chablis about it. She wanted to go with him, but he did not want her to go. He went to the party without her; she got mad and won the fight by showing up. Feeling that Chablis was a cruel she-man, she needed to stick with her boyfriend, the guy that actually accepts her manly features.

Realism in this novel is both unbelievable and believable. For example, the story about the drag queen was written in an unbelievable manner in the reader’s eyes. Most people know drag queens when they see them. It is not necessary to have to look deeper into the character to find out. Looking at the body figure, and listening to their voice are easy ways to find out if the woman is a male. Even though Chablis is a drag queen, the author approaches and describes her as a female at the beginning of the novel. Closer to the end, he hints to the reader that Chablis is a male.

Also, the voodoo priestess could change the reader’s mind about witchcraft. The thing the priestess did was she went to her husband’s grave to talk to him. She thought that by going to talk to her husband he would give her advice but didn’t. The witchcraft of the priestess changes the reader’s mind about witchcraft because it is not as bad as people think. The only thing about her is that the viewer thinks she is psycho.

The most believable conflict in Midnight is the trial of Williams and Hansford. When someone kills another person, the killer never gets out of murder. In the eyes of the jury, murder is murder no matter how it happened. Murders like the Hansford murder occurs everyday. Shooting a person for self-defense has to be taken to trial. The conflict is believable because trials like this case take place all over the world.

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