Part one of term paper
Mattie Rigsbee, from Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton, is an extremely unique person. She is very bona fide, a true Christian, but still likes to gossip every once in a while. Her uniqueness shows in many ways: she is the best cook in Listre, North Carolina, she has the compulsion to help others that have less than she, and she is ...

Part two of term paper
... at any of the three meals per day she cooks. While caring for everybody, she still likes to gossip with her friends. Like when she fell through the chair, she just had to tell all her friends about her experience. Even though Mattie is seventy-eight, and running down, she sets a standard of responsibility for people of any age. Her love for her children is shown throughout the novel. When she cooks for her children or pesters them about getting married so she can have some grandchildren proves tha ...