Elizabeth’s prayer is about an undying passion that prevents her from becoming spiritually sensitive. A quest for salvation and a fear of [English class] govern the lives of the majority of the characters in Go Tell It on the Mountain. However, Elizabeth is less influenced by Christianity and more influenced by passion. Most of her life is spent with sinners – Richard is wholly unreligious and her father maintains a place where people come “to eat, and drink cheap moonshine, and play music all night long–and to do worse things…which were far better left unsaid” (105). But the fact that Richard and her father are sinners does not prevent Elizabeth from loving them. This pattern of sinful love is never broken throughout Elizabeth's life,
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