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Vera Paranteau
Wood Mountain is a boxer who trains with Lloyd Barnes. Throughout the novel, he has feelings for Patrice, which puts him in conflict with Barnes, who also has feelings for her. After one of Wood Mountain’s fights in Fargo is canceled, instead of going home, he travels to Minneapolis to try and make sure that Patrice is doing okay while she’s searching for Vera, showing that he genuinely cares for Patrice and is willing to go out of his way to try and be there for others. In Minneapolis, he finds Patrice working at Log Jam 26, and he helps engineer her escape. The two of them then take Vera’s baby back home. Wood Mountain becomes a kind of surrogate parent to the baby, and he suggests naming him Archille, after his father—at least temporarily, until Vera returns. He and Patrice begin a romantic relationship at that time, too. But when Vera returns, it becomes clear, at least to Patrice, that Wood Mountain and Vera make a better match. Patrice gives Wood Mountain her blessing when he tells her that he and Vera would like to be a couple. Wood Mountain also fights against Joe Wobble in a boxing match that serves as a fundraiser for the delegation that travels to Washington, D.C., to testify against the Termination Bill.
Wood Mountain Quotes in The Night Watchman
The The Night Watchman quotes below are all either spoken by Wood Mountain or refer to Wood Mountain. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Juggie’s Boy
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Many years back, the first Wobleszynski had encroached on the land owned by Wood Mountain’s grandmother. Since then, the Wobleszynskis sent their cattle to graze on Juggie’s land so often that her family had finally shanghaied a cow. This happened during berry-picking time, when there were extra people camped out everywhere, so if the cow was stolen it was quickly absorbed into boiling pots. Nothing was ever traced or proved but nothing was ever forgotten, either. Over the years, resentment between the families had become entrenched.
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Wood Mountain Quotes in The Night Watchman
The The Night Watchman quotes below are all either spoken by Wood Mountain or refer to Wood Mountain. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Juggie’s Boy
Quotes
Many years back, the first Wobleszynski had encroached on the land owned by Wood Mountain’s grandmother. Since then, the Wobleszynskis sent their cattle to graze on Juggie’s land so often that her family had finally shanghaied a cow. This happened during berry-picking time, when there were extra people camped out everywhere, so if the cow was stolen it was quickly absorbed into boiling pots. Nothing was ever traced or proved but nothing was ever forgotten, either. Over the years, resentment between the families had become entrenched.
Related Characters:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
