Both Uses of
peasant
in
Looking for Alaska
- The miracle, at least in that time and in that place, was that Jesus—a peasant, a Jew, a nobody in an empire ruled exclusively by somebodies—was the son of that God, the all-powerful God of Abraham and Moses.†
p. 70.1
- A peasant and a Jew.†
p. 70.2 *
Definition:
used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: a person of low income, education, and social standing -- especially one who raises crops or livestock