I like the roller coaster. You get more out of it” (Parenthood, 1989). By telling this story, Grandma defines not only life, but also parenthood as something that makes you “so frightened, so scared, so sick, so excited, and so thrilled altogether.” It is obvious that Gil prefers the merry-go-round; he prefers stable. Otherwise, he is too tense when life has too many surprises. When Gil is at his daughter’s play and his youngest son runs up to the stage messing up the set, Gil has a brief moment where you can hear the sound of a rollercoaster, and he seems to be in vertigo with what seems like chaos.
Then the baby is born, only to die shortly afterward. It is a cruel symbolism at the end Rose Sharon’s symbolized hope, the promise of new life, and was something that brought the family together then to have it torn away cruelly in the end. This book is based during the time of the dustbowl. When the main character Tom Joad is released from prison and he goes to join his family and the horrors are revealed to him when he joins his family. People forcibly evicted from their homes, drought, and starvation.
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. The town doctor explains that Cash’s leg was hopelessly destroyed by the cement cast, which his father did by the way... Vardaman realizes he’s poor because he can’t have toys like the other kids. Darl is shipped off to an insane asylum when he is suspected of the burning of the Gillespie farm. Anse borrows shovels to bury Addie’s body and flirts
Josh is mortified when he has to relocate and live with his father who has a new profession: Elvis impersonator. (F) Peck, Richard. A RIVER BETWEEN US. In 1816, two mysterious women arrive in Illinois from New Orleans and are taken in by Tilly’s family. As the Civil War spreads north, Tilly’s brother Noah joins the Union army.
But Walter begins to see a new side to his great uncles when he stumbles on an old photograph of a beautiful woman hidden away in a trunk and asks Garth who she is. FFor 14-year old Walter, his great uncles’ farm in rural Texas is the last place on earth he wants to spend the summer. Dumped off by his mother, Mae, in the middle of nowhere with two crazy old men and the promise that she’ll come back for him, Walter doesn’t know what to believe in. Eccentric and gruff, Hub and Garth McCaan are rumored to have been bank robbers, mafia hit men and/or war criminals in their younger days. The truth is elusive, although they do seem to have an endless supply of cash.
Being charged for burning the barn, he deserves leniency. Ab suffers trauma from war that leads him to performing such acts. Mayor de Spain accuses Ab of intentionally destroying his rug. After Ab's attempts to fix the rug fail, de Spain charges him twenty bushels of corn for the damages. Ab, feeling that twenty bushels are too steep a price for the damages, takes de Spain to court and sues him.
Chris Wachal Comp 2 1/3/2011 “The Barn Burning” character analysis Word count Wachal #1 The Barn burning by William Faulkner is a short story that takes whomever is reading it on a suspenseful roller coaster from the very beginning. The opening scene takes place right after the civil war ( around 1875) in a store where one of the main characters Abner Snopes is being tried for arson by the justice of the peace. Abner is found not guilty because he has mind washed his ten year old son Colonel Sartoris Snopes (or Sarty for short) into lying for his father. The towns reaction to the trial is hostel to say the least. The Snope family is banished from the town like dozens of towns prior.
Scout succumbs to Aunt Alexandra’s urgings to be less of a tomboy and wear a dress. She witnesses the hypocrisy and racism of some of the members of the ladies’ Missionary Circle. Her return to school prompts reflections on Hitler, democracy and dictatorship, and the last part of the novel concerns Bob Ewell’s attempts to wreak havoc: his attempted burglary of Judge Taylor’s house and his attack on Jem and Scout after a Halloween pageant. Jem breaks his arm but is carried home. Bob Ewell dies of a knife wound.
The two kids find shelter in the barn until morning being woken up by cowbells and the sound of animals running amongst them. They wake up to see a man “thin and tall, his neck bowed forward as if from years of ducking. The man's son has died from the war and he has lost his farm hand, and we can imply at the end of the story that the man is going to keep the youth as a slave and send Viticus far away. In this story, Ron Rash Does a great job of giving us a lot of information on what slaves went through by conveying this through the two boys. From being once a slave to escaping there workhouse and traveling day and night with little to no food, finding a new place to stay and trusting a family to take you in and allow you to live a normal life, and lastly leaving your family.
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck The novel takes its title from the poem by Robert Burns (1759-1796) “To A Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With The Plough” “The best laid plans of mice and men Gang oft agley And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy” Steinbeck describes the daily life of a group of migrant ranch workers in California at around the time of the Great Depression. Through the interaction between the characters we learn of their friendships, loneliness, hardships, powerlessness, hopes and dreams. As events unfold during a short period these fragile dreams are tragically destroyed, leading to death and despair. Of Mice and Men – Support Material Contents: • Simplified Level: o Character Descriptions o Reading