Review by Luca I. Jamie Morton is only six-years-old when he meets his rural Maine town’s new preacher. The Methodist priest, Charles Jacobs, brings with him his wife, Patty, and five-year-old son, Morrie. The entire hamlet is excited for their arrival, but soon expresses utter horror at his behavior. Patty and Morrie are killed in a brutal accident involving an epileptic farmer. Though this alone does not scare the believers; soon after Jacobs’ final sermon is filled with heaping piles of blasphemy, doubt, and thoughts on electricity. Charlie’s greatest hobby is, simply, the utilization of electricity. Earlier in the story
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