Far From The Madding Crowd Summary

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Far from the Madding Crowd Summary chapter 1-8 Gabriel Oak, who is twenty eight years old, lived in Norcombe Hill. He is described as a simple man, who doesn’t really care about his appearance. Although he wasn’t very talkative he was very respected by the people in the town. While Oak was working the land he saw a wagon that was passing by. The vehicle stopped there because something had fallen off and the driver went to pick it up. Inside the wagon there was a woman that admired herself when she looked her reflection in a mirror that she pulled out from some luggage. When the diver returned she put away the mirror. In the turnpike gate the woman refused to pay two pence that the gatekeeper demanded. So a dispute started. Meanwhile Oak had been looking all the time and in order to put an end to this dispute he gave the gatekeeper the money. The woman didn’t thank Gabriel; this was something that upset him. He though she was a vain woman. It was a cold winter’s night and Gabriel was playing his flute inside his hut. It was a simple but comfortable hut. He had recently become an independent sheep farmer after he had bought his first sheep with the money he had earned during his life. He was a very responsible man and worked hard. That night he was admiring the sky full of stars when he saw and artificial light up in the hill. He went to see and found a shed. Inside were two women, a young one and an older one. Both were nursing the birth of a calf. The younger one was preoccupied because her hat has being carried off by the wind. Gabriel Oak started to observe that woman, he was concentrated on her, and imagining how she might be. A moment after, when the woman drops her cloak he recognizes her. She was the woman of the wagon. The following day Oak found the hat and took it to his hut. He was planning to give it back to the

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