The film is about the story of a young man ‘Jim’ who grows up in the high country with his father. When his father dies in a freak accident, the young man goes down to the farms in the flat country to seek a job. Through his job seeking endeavours, he meets a young woman named Jessica who is his boss’ daughter. Jessica and Jim start training a famous colt, but one day it escapes. ‘Harrison’ Jim’s boss is furious when he finds out and causes Jessica to run away.
Asta's son is heartbroken from the loss of his mother. Worst yet Asta's son’s is blamed for a murder that he did not commit. Asta's son is soon declared as a "wolf's head" (wanted dead or alive). Asta's son runs out of the village and begins the journey to discover whom he really is. Asta's son hides in the forest, and one day hears a conversation between John Ayecliffe, the village steward, and another person.
The author uses events that really happened in the Civil War to bring home the brutality of war--the building of a wall with dead bodies, young men shot in the stomach being left to die, horses being killed to feed starving men. These events must change the men involved. When Charley leaves for Fort Snelling, he is a smiling, fast-talking boy. Once Charley returns home, he is a different man-a broken man, in constant pain, unable to hold a job, and looking forward to his own death. Narrative
Anse decides that pouring cement all over Cash’s leg will help the break, smart huh?(*sarcasticly). He then mortgages everything he owns and sells Jewel’s special horse in order to buy a new team of mules. When the family rests for the night at Gillespie’s farm, Darl burns the barn down in order to try and cremate his own mother, but is unsuccessful. When the family finally arrives in Jefferson, Dewey Dell tries to get an abortion, but is instead forced into sex by a younger poor excuse of a man pretending to be a doctor. Then her father takes the money she needs to use to get a real abortion in order to buy himself a new set of teeth.
How are the Birlings presented prior to the Inspectors entrance in ‘An Inspector Calls’? In the beginning of the play the Birlings are having a family dinner to celebrate the engagement of Sheila, Mr Birling’s daughter and Gerald Croft. The Birling Family come across as your average middle-class family; Mr Birling, a wealthy business man who owns a factory; his wife, Mrs. Birling who is a social climber and is very concerned about her appearance; Eric, Mr Birling’s son, who is quite uneasy; Sheila, Mr Birling’s daughter who is being engaged to Gerald and Gerald who is the son of one of Mr. Birling’s business rivals. Mr Birling is a self-made industrial businessman who shares capitalist values; you can tell this from some of the things he says. He is very business orientated as even when he is meant to be celebrating his daughter being engaged to her love he sees the benefits it will have for his business.
In spite of the situation Janie marries Tea Cake in Jacksonville, Florida. Shortly thereafter they then move to the Everglades after he is stabbed over a gambling dispute. While there they rented a two room house and he worked as a bean picker. At this point it is late summer which is hurricane season in the Everglades.
Muley is an old family friend who at the time didn't look so good, he looked like he had been living on his own for years. After Muley explains everything that has happened, the Joads being forced off their land by the landowners. The banks were evicting all farmers from their land. Muley also told them about how the drought has been affecting their land and made it almost impossible to farm. When the property was destroyed by a tractor, the
At first his father would threaten him and then his father resorted to beatings. This attitude of his father’s served to drive Francis away from him and enforce his beliefs in God and his purpose in this life. During a huge turning point in Francis’ life, and in the midst of legal proceedings before the Bishop of Assisi, Francis renounced his father and laid aside even the garments he had received from him in front of the entire crowd. For the next couple of months Francis lived as a beggar in the region of Assisi. He wandered the countryside around his home-town alone for two years.
Ruthie, who is the youngest daughter of the Joad family told one of the girls in the cam that her brother (Tom) has killed two men and his currently hiding near. After Ma Joad finds this out she tells Tom to really leave, because she is fearful for the rest of the family and is scared that they are in danger. Tom then leaves to do the same that that Jim was doing which was gathering migrant workers. There was word out that there wouldn't be a job open for anybody, because cotton season was finishing up. The land becomes flooded from the rain that was set in and Rose of Sharon has her baby, they all go to a dry barn for safety from the
Thomas runs away from the Mission School and returns to his mountain home. When he arrives he expects to find his brother the bear and the rest of his animal family, but instead he finds a “charred circle” (70) where his lodge used to be. Tom then “…stood among the ashes and whispered the sorrow chant…For small griefs you shout, but for the big griefs you whisper or say nothing. The big griefs must be borne alone, inside” (70.) He knows that it was Blue Elk who did it because there is not one item of worth left behind, not even the knife Tom’s mother gave him.