Better a Dinner of Herbs, Byron Herbert Reece

In the last part that I read, The preacher slaps his wife and Enid gets really mad at him. The preacher leaves and on his way back Enid intercepts him on a road, Enid taunts the Preacher with a parable. During their talk we find out that Danny is the Preacher's bastard son. The Preacher gets his mare, that he is riding on, to run off and at the same time Enid pushes The Preacher off. The Preacher's left foot gets stuck in the reins and he is dragged to death. Mary finds out about her husbands death later that afternoon, they have the wake the next day, and the night of the wake Enid runs away and is never heard of again. When Danny finds out that his uncle is gone he goes through shock and it takes him awhile to get recovered.
The end of this book was alot different than I thought it would be, but the excitement of the end was what I wanted. I really didn't think that the end would be so sad, having a little inocent boy like Danny cry can really break someone's heart. I also thought that Enid was a little more level headed and really didn't expect him to kill the Preacher. I might think differently though if he had made my sister pregnant and if she died after giving child birth. I think that maybe this book might be much more frightening for an adult to read because these situations are more for adults and someone my age wouldn't probably see the full severness of some of the events that happened. All in all though I enjoyed this book and I would like to read more like this one.