Short Fiction · Character
Professor Micheals
An overworked anthropology professor whose sacred week of doing nothing is ruined by a gray-black object in his ditch that eats spades, dirt, and sunlight.
supporting
Also known as Micheals
First appearance: final examination
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Discovers the leech in a ditch during his resting week; attempts to study it and later advises General O'Donnell.
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Micheals guards his ten-year custom of a week of absolute rest at his New York State farm, until his hired man Conners shows him a truck-tire-sized thing that sheared two inches off a spade. Prodding it with scientific…
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- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
This is the dramatic climax because Morrison reaches the psychological breaking point of his twenty-first day…
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