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

Midnight in the Garden of respectable and Evil by John Berendt savanna is the city of Southeast Georgia near the mouth of the Savannah River. James Ogelthorpe founded it in 1733, it is the oldest city in Georgia and has been a major port since the azoic 19th century (Soukhanov, p.1606). Savannah has been called that gently mannered city by the sea and indeed it is, with Spanish moss hanging from the huge oak trees and the shine of the idle reflecting off the pillars of Savannahs grand mansions. Ones imagination can conjure up a simple setting where the clop of hooves on the cobblestone streets knell in the mind and sweat from the glass of a delicious madiera leaves a ring on the tabletop.I think that Jim Williams said it best. You mustnt be taken in by the moonlight and magnolias. Theres more to Savannah than that. Things can get very murky (Berendt, p.11). The book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil was written by John Berendt, it is his non-fiction account o f the time he spent in Savannah. Berendt was sent from his home in New York to write a magazine article about Mr. Jim Williams grand Christmas parties in Savannah. Unbeknownst to Berendt, he had just stumbled into the middle of a much better story the Hansford slaying and the resultant legal battles of Williams. Berendt also met a host of eccentric, even preposterous Savannahians. Here, he realized, was the sort of local color that most novelists could only dream about (www.Savannahnow.co...