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The Guilty In John Patrick Shaneley's Doubt: A Parable

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In John Patrick Shaneley’s Doubt: A Parable, exhibits strong assumptions. Deciding weather Father Flynn is innocent or guilty is like a game of cat and mouse. The explanations and evidence keeps you wondering even after the story is over. Father Flynn is treated guilty until proven innocent in sister Aloysius eyes. Sister Aloysius thinks there is a inappropriate relationship going on with Father Flynn and Donald Muller; The first black boy at St. Nicholas. Donald is most defiantly the “black sheep” of St. Nicholas. Donald gets special attention, good and bad. Sister Aloysius attacks the most innocent of actions saying, ”On the first day of the school year, I saw you touch William London’s wrist. And i saw him pull away.”(Shanley 52) which
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