"When hese Pharisees pray they demand that all action cease." A craftsman, a youth with a heavy bundle, and a toothless old Jew munching on an apple stop everything they are doing as one of the despotic Pharisees in their midst kisses the hem of his cloak and loudly prays upward, advertising his moral superiority: "Oh Lord, I thank thee that I am better than other men.Balderston.) The first film version of the novel was an early German silent film,Nosferatu: A Symphony in Terror(1922), an unauthorized adaptation of Stoker""s novel directed by expressionist F." He convincingly warned that between there and Ridgemont, he had already come upon six bodies in Myers"" wake, and "he""s here to kill that little girl and anybody who gets in his way.Inside Preysing""s room, she was embarrassed to find him draped half-naked in a towel in his bathroom, and performing stretching and bending exercises before a steamy mirror.Norwood snapped back: "Poor-white is poor-white, and books won""t change him." Marvin burst in, interrupted the Norwood family at dinner, told Mr.Norwood hat his father was dead, and summoned him to help.The Death of Marvin""s Father, and Norwood""s Sponsorship of Marvin""s Education and Offer of a Job:Following a somber funeral service and burial ceremony for Tom Blake (in a simple pine coffin), the guilty-feeling Norwood - partially due to his daughter""s intercession for her classmate - begrudgingly but supportively assisted Marvin by sponsoring the continuation of his education.