Moses is an older man who is a part of the Life Defense Force and introduces Nick and Olivia to the group. He favors using more extreme tactics like sabotaging property in the fight against the logging companies. He is killed along with Mother N when their group’s office is bombed.
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Moses Character Timeline in The Overstory
The timeline below shows where the character Moses appears in The Overstory. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Part 2: Trunk
...ragtag group called the “Life Defense Force.” Nick and Olivia eat with a man named Moses, and the next day they meet a woman named Mother N, whom Olivia recognizes as...
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Back in the redwood camp, Moses asks if anyone feels like doing “a brief stint up top”—continuing the group’s sit-in atop...
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...Adam. He climbs up to the platform and then delivers bad news: Mother N and Moses are dead. Someone bombed their office, but the police are saying that they blew themselves...
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