It was such a powerful, emotional experience that Davis is driven to use flashcards at home with her children and do whatever it takes to preserve thelanguage.
Every death involved "the great change" captured in thelanguage and discourse of nineteenth-century Christianity, the shift from this life to whatever might come next.
They have different perceptions of the man but agree on at least one thing - whatever Capt O'Neill intended to achieve he was handicapped by the fact he could never quite speak thelanguage of the people who voted for his party.