1. Frontier life was difficult for Molly’s family because they had to be self-sufficient of all the jobs to do such as feeding the horses, harvesting the farm, cooking the food, feeding the cows, making tools and clothes, and planting seeds. 2. The warning the family was given was that the Indians killed the Johnson family, and they are coming in their direction, but the Molly’s father would not leave because he does not fear the Indians. Also, so he can plant his corn. 3. The invasion started when the door to Molly’s house was slammed open. Then through the door she saw a dead man next to the well-sweep, and she saw a dead horse resting on the ground next to him. Molly’s attempt at saving the family started when saw her dad’s long rifle on the wall. She grabbed the rifle, but a hand grabbed the it, and put it down. Then she was taken. 4. …show more content…
Molly’s mother handled her captivity with a lot of sadness, and she did not speak until the Indians started to take Molly away from her, where she said her last words to Molly. Her father handled his captivity with guilt and sadness. Also, he gave up of escaping, and then said something right before he dies. 5. The captors keep their captives moving along by whipping then around their legs if the stop to take a breath. 6. The moccasins the Indians gave to Molly and Davy symbolizes that their captors are taking them away from their parents. Also, it symbolizes that you’re becoming an Indian. 7. The advice Mrs. Jemison gives is don’t forget to speak English, say your prayers, don’t run away, have courage, and be brave. Mr. Jemison advice was that the Indians will never hurt her. 8. Shagbark tries to comfort Molly and Davy by having a friendly smile. Also, by stopping the other Indians from scalping Molly. 9. The Native Americans used a long staff to picked up the grass, and put it back down to cover their trail. 10. When the Indian tried to hit Molly with a tomahawk Shagbark knocked the Hatchet out of his
Rebecca Sharpless’ book “Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices” tells the stories of everyday women in Central Texas on cotton farms. She argues that women were not just good for keeping house, cooking, sewing and raising children but that they were an essential key to the economy. Whether they were picking cotton alongside men or bearing children
On page 53, four paragraphs down the author states that the boy’s choice in moving away improved his academic life. His father only lived a mile and a half down the road, like the old saying so close but so far away. At the end of page 53, the author talks about him and his Aunt going on trips. She taught him all about Indian culture on these trips. They even traveled to the imitation Stonehenge Monument. On this trip his Aunt had begun to talk to the main character about what he wants to be in life. The boy answers “I want to be like you,” and she had told him to think about following in his father footstep’s considering the fact many Indian boy’s do.
Students are always taught about slavery, segregation, war, and immigration, but one of the least common topics is farm women in the 1930’s. Lou Ann Jones, author of Mama Learned Us to Work, portrayed a very clear and clean image to her readers as to what the forgotten farm-women during the 1930’s looked like. This book was very personal to me, as I have long listened to stories from my grandmother who vividly remembers times like these mentioned by Jones. In her book Mama Learned Us to Work, author Lou Ann Jones proves that farm women were a major part of Southern economy throughout the content by the ideology and existence of peddlers, the chicken business, and linen production.
Native Americans chose to live off the land such as animals and the trees for houses from the time of early civilization in the Americas to when Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic. In Thomas Morton’s writing he said “they gather poles in the woods and put eh great end of them in the ground, placing them in form of a circle.”
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She asked Alexie to apologize, he asked: “Sorry for what?” For being an “Indian.” to what teacher replied “Everything.” She punished him by standing straight for fifteen minutes and eagle-arm with books in each hand. Betty Towle made him eat the paper for reading the words wrong way when he read them right. She used the word “Indian” consecutively with a capitalization, to what Alexie answered “Yes, I am, I am Indian. Indian, I am.” This is significant because he is expressing his pride for his Indian background. He is not ashamed to stand up for himself. She sent a letter to his parents telling him to cut off his braids otherwise, he wouldn’t be able to enter her
The story is told through the eyes of seven year old Luke Chandler. Luke lives with his parents and grandparents on their rented farmland in the lowlands of Arkansas. It takes place during the harvest season for cotton in 1952. Like other cotton growers, these were hard times for the Chandlers. Their simple lives reached their zenith each year with the task of picking cotton. It’s more than any family can complete by themselves. In order to harvest the crops and get paid, the Chandlers must find cotton pickers to help get the crops to the cotton gin. In order to persevere, they must depend on others. They find two sets of migrant farm workers to assist them with their efforts: the Mexicans, and the Spruills - a family from the Arkansas hills that pick cotton for others each year. In reading the book, the reader learns quickly that l...
The House of the Seven Gables written by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a novel that engages the reader in an intricate love story that blends history and a fanciful ancestry. Hawthorne stays true to the Romantic era’s convections through his detailed development of the plot. Through his writing, the reader can capture the emotions, morality and motives of each character. Although Hawthorne writes in the romantic style, he does not fail to go against the social norms with the plot. He defines the normal roles of women and he emphasizes the role of wealth in society. Furthermore he asserts his opinions on issues that were prevent in that time, such as, racism, slave emancipation and Jim Crow. The story was not created to just provide a creative love
One manner in which this unusual place can be seen is in the women's privileged relationship to the land in the text. While Jim Burden attends school, it is Antonia who shapes and works the new land that the pioneers inhabit, going "from farm to farm" to fill the need for agricultural hands (111). While Otto and Jake fill this need early in the text, it is predominantly Antonia's cultivation of the land that is followed throughout the remainder of the text. Similarly, the concrete contributions of the "hired girls" stand in pointed contrast to the invisible and/or passive employment of male characters such as Mr. Harling.
In the book there is some physical and social limitations placed on the working-class. For example Crook he is an african american and he is crippled because when he was little he got kicked in the back by a horse. For these reason he is isolated away from the other people that work on the ranch. It impacts the class because it helps the go and look for companionship even though back then it was not okay for african americans to talk to white people because of their skin color. In addition Candy another worker that lives on the ranch lost his hand. He lost it in the machine while working on the ranch. For this reason he thinks they only keep him around because he got hurt their but when he can’t do no more work he is gonna have to leave. They
The Narrator’s family treats her like a monster by resenting and neglecting her, faking her death, and locking her in her room all day. The Narrator’s family resents her, proof of this is found when the Narrator states “[My mother] came and went as quickly as she could.
He was not too surprised to hear that they ran away, he knew Molly was a smart girl and would be able to plan something like this. After the call, he also mentioned that in the meantime, he would like this to be kept out of the newspapers. This incident might make him feel ashamed if the public was informed that the girls have ran away from a camp. People might think that he is not capable of keeping kids at his ‘civilization camp’ in the borders and not able to stop them from running away. In the meantime, the tracker was out searching for the girls.
It was silent as Bill Hutchinson went over to his wife Tessie and force the slip of paper out of her hand. It had a black spot on it. Bill Hutchinson seemed as if he had no heart or compassion for Tessie as he raised up the slip of paper, that created a general sigh of relief from the crowd, But Tessie was afraid you could hear it in her voice as she screamed, ‟Please no this isn’t fair!” As they back her into a corner her. ‟ No stop please I have a family.” or so Tessie thought they were her family, but she thought to herself would family do such an inhuman thing?, but as for the rest of the village they were relieved as everyone in the village started to grab stones. Little Davy Hutchinson with no clue what was going on runs to his mother,
So they tried something safer this time but with Ellen’s papa too, they took a walk, but then a robber came up to them, killed mama and shot both of Ellen’s papa’s lung, he died. So Ellen and Annemarie ran as quick as they could to Ellen’s mama. The next morning Annemarie tries to wake up Ellen by screaming in her face but Ellen didn’t wake up, she died of a heart attack. So Annemarie, Mama and Uncle Henrik decide to leave because of all the deaths but then… they figure out that there is a suicide bomber on the boat and he blows it
She immediately went into shock and lost memory of where she was or what had happened for three entire days. When I read this, it made me want to cry. I cannot imagine my mother and sister being executed by the government for doing absolutely nothing wrong. This situation is emotional to anybody who has even a sliver of a heart. Luong later said that “Now it is all real. How I no longer have to pretend to be an orphan.” (pg. 164) This part in the book best shows the main message because it is the perfect example that life is not fair all the