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The sheriff and the deputy are some of the white men who come at the end of the novel to forcibly remove the Apple Islanders from their home. They begin to carry off Rabbit against everyone’s will, prompting Candace to follow them and attempt to intervene. The sheriff and deputy repeatedly mistake Candaces intentions and assume she is attacking them, so they attack her, and in the ensuing confusion, the deputy clubs Rabbit in the head and kills her. The sheriff and deputy represent the power of a racist legal system, showing how, even though they don’t intend to kill anyone, their actions nevertheless have tragic and even deadly consequences.
The Sheriff and Deputy Quotes in This Other Eden
The This Other Eden quotes below are all either spoken by The Sheriff and Deputy or refer to The Sheriff and Deputy. 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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Candace grabbed blindly in the surf and caught the man who had punched her around the waist, as much to raise herself up as to stop the man from punching her again, but the man took it to mean that she was fighting back so he boxed her on the ears and punched her on the side of the head again, near her brow, and split the skin open over one of her eyes.
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The Sheriff and Deputy Quotes in This Other Eden
The This Other Eden quotes below are all either spoken by The Sheriff and Deputy or refer to The Sheriff and Deputy. 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:
).
Part 3
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Candace grabbed blindly in the surf and caught the man who had punched her around the waist, as much to raise herself up as to stop the man from punching her again, but the man took it to mean that she was fighting back so he boxed her on the ears and punched her on the side of the head again, near her brow, and split the skin open over one of her eyes.
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