Cold Sassy Tree

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Cold Sassy Tree By Olive Ann burns The book Cold Sassy Tree, by Olive Ann Burns, takes place in Cold Sassy, Georgia. The protagonists are Rucker Blackslee and a young man that goes by the name of Will Tweedy. Rucker Blakeslee and his new bride, Miss Love Simpson, attempt to live happily and ignore the town's and the Blackslee family's general condemnation of their union. Will struggles to grow up and maintain his integrity with all the drama that is happening. This novel is about an old man growing young because after his wife Mattie Lou Blakeslee passed away he decided to move on and make Miss Love Simpson his new bride. This quote at the end of Chapter 1 is a response to his daughters' outrage about marrying the young lady, "Well, good gosh a’mighty! She’s dead as she’ll ever be, ain’t she? Well, ain’t she?". That sure does reveal a lot about his character! This novel also explains how a young man (Will Tweedy) is growing up because of all the rough situations he is going through and how he matures during those times. As his thoughts began to align with his own actions more and more, you already knew he was really growing up. This is an example of how he is maturing and how he knows how his grandfather feels, “How you go’n stand it, Grandpa? I mean goin’ home every night and she ain’t there.” Modern age is coming to the small town Cold Sassy by the modern technology that is slowly coming. They used automobiles to get around rather than horses or mules. What Mr. Blakeslee (Will's father) calls “a dang marvel” an automobile, and so after Mr. Blakeslee and Miss Love went to New York where they bought an automobile. This also shows how people slowly changed their means of transportation. A new invention of telephones changed the way of people communicating. Lastly in this novel, there is a lesson all behind it all. This novel tells us the reality of

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