Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt Essay -- Midni

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by prank BerendtThe book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil was written by John Berendt and was388 pages long. This was a non-fiction story of the beautiful township of Savannah, Georgia. JohnBerendt was a reporter who lived in New York and one night while dinning out he complete thatone plate of food cost him the same amount of money that it would to fly to Savannah. So he didand he found himself in love with the urban center and stayed. It is a spellbinding story peopled by agallery of remarkable reference points a fading belle who packs a pistol in her dcolletage acharming, piano-playing con man who moves like a hermit crab from one empty showplacehouse to the next, accompanied by his high-living entourage and pursued closely by hiscreditors a moneyed dowager who conducts business from a cruising Mercedes limousine asour alcoholic inventor who claims to own a vial of poison so sizeable that it could kill off theentire city a voodo o priestess in purple shades and a foul-mouthed black drag queen whopasses so convincingly for a woman that she is able to extort abortion money from the parents ofher white boyfriend. With these and other people from savannah, Berendt reviles his alliancesand enemies in the town where everybody knows everybody else.The exciting colorful town of Savannah is said to be the main character in this Novel, butthe main character was actually John Berendt, he was the narrator and main character . He was areporter from New York who made savannah and the people in Savannah his interest, his home,and his life. He learned all about this secluded city through observation, meetings, and gossip.He was an intelligent man who always knew where to be at the right time. There was this onescene in the book where he was having an interview with Jim Williams when Danny Hansfordwalked in, in a tirade, with a shirt on that said F-U on it. Well earlier that day his other friendJoe Oldem had been talking a bout this curious man who woke up in his bed with that same thingprinted on his shirt. John was in the right place at the right time to upchuck two and two together. JimWilliams was the other study character in this book, he was an antique dealer who owned one ofthe nicest homes in Savannah. He was a major ... ...job at it. The strongest features of the book was the way he described the people and the city asbeing one, The weakest furcate of the book was that the actually story of the instruction execution didnt startuntil the second dissever of the book. If I was the author I would probably incorporate more of themurder story line into the first part of the book and introduce the characters throughout thewhole book not just the first part ( the book was separated into a part 1 and part 2).The ending of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil was very satisfactory, Jim wasfound not guilty of Danny Hansfordss death. Jim threw his first Christmas party of the form forthe first time in 8 years, where he found himself remaking the guest list. Then at the very end hedied, I moot that it was ideal for him to die, it was uncanny though that he died in thesame place that he would of died 8 years ago if Danny had shot and killed him like he thinktoo. After Jims death Savannah was still the same. It was growing inward away from the realworld, living in its own. The book starts with the town and ends with the town and I found that tobe very satisfactory.