Cold Mountain Essay Ruby, the young firl who comes along in the book to help Ada with her farm, is the confidante that I chose. ... Throughout the book, we learn about how Ada is alone on a farm, waiting for Inman to return from the war. ... Swanger tells her that Ada needs help with farm. ... Ruby and Ada would be perfectly fine without Inman they"d go about working on the farm like always. Even the kids that they had to take care, gave both Ada and Ruby a family, so Ruby's role changed again, this time more of a mother-like character. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Sometimes, the gifts of fate have devastating effect on our families, friends and other people we know. ... He has no family or friends. ... He is unable to pay back anything because his farm was not bringing in any profit. ... One of the sub themes would be the choice between your family and your relatives. ... A while ago, during their childhood it was a profitable and successful farm. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

While the entire Dunn family is adversely affected by Henry's death, it is Arthur who suffers the most because he associates his identity with his ability to meet his father's expectations. ... Arthur is affected by his father's death because he feels that Henry would have wanted him to keep running the farm. ... Henry was the main provider for the Dunn family and also a person Mrs. ... Some examples of this are not making Jake do farm work and not making him do as many chores as Arthur does. ... This reveals how much Henry kept the family working together but also how much Mrs....

• Word Count: 666
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• Grade Level: High School

That Eye The Sky Review The Novel That Eye The Sky by Tim Winton is about the Flack family consisting of Sam and Alice, their children, and Tegwyn and Morton. The story is located in the outback of Australia, they live on a farm where it is isolated from everything else. ... Due to this incident, gradually through out the novel we find the details of each character and how this incident gradually pulled the family apart. ... As the family is falling apart , Ort hopes for a miracle that will cure his father. Then when a stranger, Henry Warburton who is an evangelist comes into the story...

• Word Count: 271
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• Grade Level: High School

An important character in this novel is Ellie and she is important because she shows how human beings can adapt to their circumstances. She was forced into a war situation and faced adversity which forced her to adapt and mature. Ellie began life as a rural teenager. She lived on a farm and her l...

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In chapter 2 the sense of entrapment of his environment is finely captured when Ethan looks at his family gravestones and remarks "We never got away-how should you?" ... Although the newly married Ethan and Zeena planned to get away from Starkfield as soon as possible, Ethan could not find purchasers for the Frome farm and mill. ... The narrator comments on the possibility that Ethan's current situation is "Perhaps it was the inevitable effect of life on the farm." ... Hale speaks sadly that it might have been better if Mattie had died - for, "if she'd ha' died, Ethan might ha&#...

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• Grade Level: High School

The brothers are Benjy, a severely retarded thirty-three year old man, confessing in April of 1928; Quentin, an educated Harvard student, speaking in June of 1910; and Jason, a resentful farm-supply store worker, speaking also in April of 1928. ... She is the only daughter and the second oldest of the Compson family. ... A very religious woman, she and her son, Luster, are loyally devoted to the Compson family. The total demise of the Compson family can be described as a "riches-to-rags" story. ... Landless and mentally deranged, the family begins to fall apart. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Employs a multiple narrator technique, it uses the varying voices and points of view of a number of characters to examine the life and character of Thomas Sutpen, a tragic figure who tries and fails to build a family dynasty in Yoknapatawpha County. ... When the Civil War broke out most of the white settlers only owned and worked small farms. ...

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The novel starts with Lyddie her mother, brother and two sisters live together in a Vermont farm house. ... When Lyddie returned to her work she was fired but she was not upset almost glad now she could go to Lowell and make real money so she could get her family back together and pay of the debts. ...

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Only when this is done can he feel himself to be part of "a human family, of the human family." ... In this sense, Darl is like a sage and prophet to the rest of the family. ... He even specifies truths and visions throughout the novel, such as when he vividly sets the aspects of the path around the farm: ...it turns and circles the cotton-house at four soft right angles and goes on across the field again, worn so by feet in fading precision. ... She's the only daughter of the family, and represents fecundity, earthiness, and reproduction. ... Vardaman is the final son of Add...

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• Grade Level: High School

A nuclear war has left Ann all alone, as her complete family have been killed by the disaster: "When I look beyond I see that all the trees are dead, and there is never a sign of anything moving. ... Her farm upbringing has equipped her with a great deal of common sense, practicality and resourcefulness. ... Innocently she dreams of sharing her life with Mr.Loomis, by having a church wedding, a "simple" hope that she can have a family in the valley. Gradually it becomes evident to Ann that Loomis killed a man named Edward, who stole the radiation suit as he insisted that his family is st...

• Word Count: 1030
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• Grade Level: High School

Robert Martin, of Abbey Mill Farm. ... The social gathering held by the Cole's also exhibits Emma's dislike for those of lower social ranking as she cannot believe the audacity they have in inviting a family such as theirs to their silly party. Emma thinks very highly of her family and their estate and settles for nothing but the best for herself and her father. ...

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Her farm upbringing has equipped her with a great deal of common sense, practicality and resourcefulness. ... Loomis, by having a church wedding, a "simple" hope that she can have a family in the valley. Eventually her dreams are shattered when it gradually becomes evident to Ann that Loomis had killed a man named Edward, who stole a radiation suit as he insisted that his family was still alive and wanted to go find them. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The boss cannot understand that Lennie and George would have any concern for each other unless if they were bound by family connections. ... Curley who is a lonely old man who works at the ranch that do not have a family or a home, overheard their conversation and then wanted to join in (thinking he could join them in their dream) and then had high hopes. ... Meanwhile Lennie was hiding in the bushes near where George told him to hide bearing roughly in mind that George had finally lost his dreams of finding a farm with him. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

After Rosa dies, Esteban throws himself into restoring his family farm, Tres Marias. ... Their lifestyles were very similar; their culture, their family, etc They had a very sleazy kind of lifestyle. ...

• Word Count: 1032
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• Grade Level: High School

Her farm upbringing has equipped her with a great deal of common sense, practicality and resourcefulness. ... Loomis, by having a church wedding, a "simple" hope that she can have a family in the valley. Eventually her dreams are shattered when it gradually becomes evident to Ann that Loomis had killed a man named Edward, who stole a radiation suit as he insisted that his family was still alive and wanted to go find them. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

She does an excellent job of pairing the challenges her family has faced being African Americans growing up during the Great Depression with essential life-lessons that are important for every person to understand. ... Her mother's parents, Ardelia and John Solomon Willis, left Greenville Alabama around 1910 after they lost a farm due to debts that they could not repay. Morrison's father's family left Georgia to move north as an attempt to escape sharecropping and the violence against African Americans in the South. The town of Lorain on Lake Erie is where both families settled ...

• Word Count: 2626
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate