... is doomed to eternal punishment, and a father who is considered a social outcast because of his race, gave her a disadvantage from the start. The mother plays an important spiritual and moral role in a child's life because it gives the child guidelines on living. In chapter 1, Wilson states that Mag felt she was an outcast. After every trial in her life she broke all connections with God ... and Christianity until "she had ceased to feel the gushings of penitence; she had crushed the sharp agonies of an awakened conscience she asked not ... lesson when Mag would blame God for all of he...

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