One rainy day in Fort Plane, New York a little orphaned boy wanders the long dirt roads to find shelter. As he is trying to keep out of the puddles from getting his feet wet, a car whizzes on by and soaks the poor child from head to toe with the dirty rain water. “This cannot be more of an inopportune time,” he mutters to himself, “just because you are not in the rain running doesn’t mean you have to slash the people on the streets.” Finally coming up and seeing a large farm with a silo perfect for him to hid away from the storm.
Approaching the giant barn the small boy is trying to duck down and make sure he is obscure so the owners of the farm would see him, while they were sitting down having family dinner. “This is the perfect place to hide out until the rain stops,” the boy says to himself. But the rain never stopped, it rained and rained and rained for two days straight. The young boy was worried if the owners of the farm would come out and find him on the loft in the silo and believe that he was a malefactor and was here to steal their tools to sell.
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The rain stopped, with the boy still fast asleep in a hay pile, one of the owners come out into the barn to see a rugged little boy shaking from the cold frigid weather that has been happening.
“Excuse me little boy what are you doing on my family farm?” the woman asked using decorous behavior.
Still groggy from his sleep the small boy replies, “Sorry ma’am, I had to escape the rain because as you can see I am rough looking and I am indigent in not really having anything help me through my
life.” The woman scratching her head and was thinking this is onerous to understand because there is no way that this little boy could be homeless in this town because everyone was so happy with their families. She asks the boy, “What is your name and are you a vagrant?” “My name is Ron Harding, I am 11 years old and I’m from Albany and have no idea where I am, I have been vitiated by my atavistic foster parents,” Ron says in a shaky voice. So scared the boy thinks that the woman will get him in trouble and make him return home. “I just couldn’t stay there anymore, I couldn’t take another beating for something I have never done in the first place,” Ron says in a short voice. The woman so heartfelt for Ron feeling bad for his unusual quaint people that call themselves parents. “Nice to meet you Ron, I’m Betty, would you like to come inside and warm up a bit while I talk to my husband Oscar.” Taking the boy’s hand and leading him to the woodstove in the small cozy white house on the farm and wrapping the child up in a blanket. Feeling so sad for the child Betty says to Oscar “We have to help the poor child he has been out in the streets for four days and needs someone to take care of him because look how he has been treated. He is so skinny he is basically a skeleton with flesh.” “I know how much you love children Betty I’ll go talk to the sheriff once Stevie shows up for work today sweetie,” Oscar says looking into Betty’s sparkling eyes with tears. Knowing already that the boy will be excited to hear the news. Betty and Oscar now got full permission from the sheriff that they can be Ron Harding’s adopted parents and sent his foster care parents to some time in jail for being indecent human beings. Now poor boy Ron is now living happily ever after with is new parents Betty and Oscar Smith.
Ethan Frome lives in the winter town of Starkfield, Massachusetts where "the storms of February…pitched their white tents about the devoted village and the wild cavalry of March winds…charged down to their support; and …Starkfield emerged from its six months' siege like a starved garrison capitulating without quarter" (Wharton, 5).
”Families, tribes, dusted out, tractored out. Car-loads, caravans, homeless and hungry; twenty thousand and fifty thousand and a hundred thousand and two hundred thousand. They streamed over the mountains, hungry and restless — restless as ants, scurrying to find work to do — to lift, to push, to pull, to pick, to cut — anything, any burden to bear, for food. The kids are hungry. We got no place to live. Like ants scurrying for work, for food, and most of all for land. “
He owned a 30-acre farm where he grew soybean and tobacco. This time of the year, however, the vegetation lay dormant. The evening began as routinely has any night in the Dickson household. Lenny’s wife Lillian had put their three children to bed by 8 o’clock, while he sat in his favorite chair listening to the radio. By eight thirty, he dozed off. Usually, Lillian would not bother him, but about 9 o’clock, he woke up to find her frantically shaking him. “What is it?”, Lenny shouted as he stared at her, clearly startled. Lillian pointed toward the window and yelled, “There is a fire at Mr. Turner’s house”, Lenny jumped from his chair and ran toward the window. “Call the fire station,” he yelled. The Dickson home was one of the few houses in Brookwood to have a telephone. Lou Turner was an 88-year-old man who lived alone. He was the last living person in Brookwood who had actually been a slave. As a young man, he escaped to the north to volunteer in the Union Army during the War Between the States. Few people knew of his unique history. Many folks just thought of him as a nice old man and he was well loved by
The fall and winter of ‘62 had been a hard on the North Alabama counties where Charity and her family lived. Snow, wind, and rain had pounded them for weeks- Snow, which was rarely seen in the South, had been heavy the early part of January- and then the winds and rain had come- upsetting the early spring planting season. Being able to buy most of the things a family needed to survive, was as hard to do as it was to get the money needed to buy them with; and, it was getting harder by the day.
A multitude of indications in this story verify or support the natural aversion to violence. The villagers naturally distance themselves from symbols of death and violence when they exert uncorrupted independent thought. This is evident in the following sentences from “The Lottery”, “They stood together away from the pile of stones in the corner”; “The villagers kept their distance, leaving space between themselves and the stool.” When Mr. Summers asks for assistance with the black box, we r...
...ble environmental concerns, no matter the cost while meeting them where they are. Dr. Farmer’s story states that helping the suffering poor is possible. This gentle, humble, and peaceful man has fought the courageous battle against man’s opinion of the oppressed and excitedly, he has won.
As WW!! raged on, Jews fled, hid and were massacred. The Jews, both strangers and friends that arrived in June, 1943 were no different. Seeking help after escaping a Polish Ghetto, the Bileckis built a bunker shrouded from enemy eyes with foliage. Sadly, their neighbours unveiled the reality of the secret bunker, which forced them to plot a new bunker site. The frightful winter brought terror to a new extent. The snow covered ground made prints more noticeable than ink on paper. Julian, one of the Bilecki children, was nimble, youthful and courageous, a survivor noted. The refugees were kept away from the brink of starvation thanks to that amiable boy who used his agility to jump swiftly from tree to tree like the raw ghosts of the Jews flitting away at the crack of dawn, following the path to nirvana. Satisfying the Jews’ hunger was a challenge in itself for the Bilecki family had to ration the shortage of food they had for t...
One has not experienced the life of living in dirt until he has been in the dust bowl. It was a decade-long dust storm that impacted hundreds of farmers and their farmlands. Hardship was among one of the influences of the storm, which affected both farm workers and city folks. The storm also brought the elements of destruction and darkness, which reigned chaos across the Plains. Together, these issues gave the storm its popular name, “black blizzard” (Documentary, 2014). Such a name was given due to the storm’s visibility as a large black cloud, which made it look evil and scary. Although the black blizzard is what some people call the dust storm, most will refer it as the dust bowl.
The story begins as the boy describes his neighborhood. Immediately feelings of isolation and hopelessness begin to set in. The street that the boy lives on is a dead end, right from the beginning he is trapped. In addition, he feels ignored by the houses on his street. Their brown imperturbable faces make him feel excluded from the decent lives within them. The street becomes a representation of the boy’s self, uninhabited and detached, with the houses personified, and arguably more alive than the residents (Gray). Every detail of his neighborhood seems designed to inflict him with the feeling of isolation. The boy's house, like the street he lives on, is filled with decay. It is suffocating and “musty from being long enclosed.” It is difficult for him to establish any sort of connection to it. Even the history of the house feels unkind. The house's previous tenant, a priest, had died while living there. He “left all his money to institutions and the furniture of the house to his sister (Norton Anthology 2236).” It was as if he was trying to insure the boy's boredom and solitude. The only thing of interest that the boy can find is a bicycle pump, which is rusty and rendered unfit to play with. Even the “wild” garden is gloomy and desolate, containing but a lone apple tree and a few straggling bushes. It is hardly the sort of yard that a young boy would want. Like most boys, he has no voice in choosing where he lives, yet his surroundings have a powerful effect on him.
There are periods in life when individuals are faced with inquisitive predicaments in which the answer is unclear, but oftentimes, instinct proves to be the most reliable source to depend on. The heartwarming short story, “Out of Bounds” by Beverley Naidoo illustrates the concept that making a decision based off of one’s own instincts results in a better view on everything. The story concerns a group known as the squatters who had lost their homeland in a flood while the main character, Rohan, was forced to make his own decision between aiding the squatters or ostracizing them like everyone else. Although the story first portrays Rohan as a selfish and indecisive boy, he later transforms into a hero that makes a significant change in society by providing the squatters opportunities when everyone else refused to aid them.
The author, Jeffrey Sachs, arrived in a small village, Nthandire, which is in Malawi, Africa. He states on the first page of chapter one, "This is year has been a lot more difficult than usual.” he says this because the rains have been failing to fall and the crops are withering. This village cannot really prevent the
Furthermore, understanding the fact of how the villagers in that village practiced and participated in such a barbaric ritual and archaic event were not accepted by people. In addition, people who read the story commented that the modest people of the Midwest are superstitious and backward. Here, Jackson conveyed successfully with her subtle writing style that something is about to happen. She also used a third person point of view when writing this short story. The third person point of view permitted the author to keep the outcome of the story an exposure. This therefore led to the reader to consider everything is well but actually there is something wrong somewhere. Furthermore, what could be seen from the story is people were different compared to present, there is a huge difference in cultural practices. Therefore the actions of the story go in the opposite direction of people’s opinion in the present in terms of value of life, violence and the development of respect in a family.
Anxiously, villagers rush to the scene to help the young boy, only to be derided by him. After multiple incidences with the young shepherd, the villagers stop coming to help him, assuming it is just another hoax. After the villagers decided they had, had enough of the boy’s lies, is when he needs them most. One day a wolf actually was attacking his flock. He screamed for help in dismay, only to realize that his past perfidious claims, ultimately lead to the massacre of his flock.
This short story takes place in a post-apocalyptic world. It is unclear to the readers how the world got to be this way. This story takes place four years after all this chaos began. The narrator does an excellent job setting the scene throughout the story using lots of details. It is revealed throughout the story that it takes place during
One is struck by the extreme cruelty and hardship he faced while only an emotionally vulnerable child and adolescent. As Wright generalizes his own experiences to show how the society functioned at the time, one may wonder how many individuals were crushed by similar circumstances.