Denzel Washington In The Book Of Eli

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The Book of Eli cast Denzel Washington as the main character. He was playing a good role and was tasked with a mission to get the book from one side to the other. He was heading to the west and was blind. According to Claudia Puig, “An attractively grizzled Denzel Washington plays the enigmatic Eli, a true believer with quasi-mystical fighting skills. He walks the barren roads, fending off desperate highwaymen, with a leather-bound King James Bible stowed carefully in his ragged knapsack. Having received what he believes is divine revelation, Eli is on a mission to a place he refers to as "west." He tries to avoid confrontation, but puts up a hellacious fight if challenged” (Puig, 2010).
The book was sacred to Eli. It had been in his possession
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