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. ...
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&#...
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...
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. ...
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. ...
His father, Louis Charles, was a veterinarian and farm machinery salesman and was also involved in local politics. ... Young Louie enjoyed playing cowboys and Indians, and roughhoused in the family barn. ... The L"Amour family library encompassed some five hundred books, among them the works of Whittier, Lowell, Longfellow, and Poe, as well as popular American and English writers. ... L"Amour's family history is rich in frontier adventure. ...
