But when she arrived at the plantation and she found out she had to like in a tiny little shack, with another girl, and only one bed and a floor mat, everything was very sad, gloomy and nothing was exciting. This shows that the village and the plantation is very different because of the feelings and emotions that go around. Another difference in the story is, the people and respect there, In the village everyone love each other, help, respects, and enjoys each others company. At the plantation everyone hates each other and one one gets along. I know this because at the village everyone was dancing and singing together and they were all getting along and at the plantation it is the exact
Chapter 4, “ Toward ‘The Stony Mountains’”, focused on Andrew Jackson’s unreasoned hatred and removal of Native American. Many times during the chapter, Takaki shows Jackson’s numerous times in removal of the Indigenous. He came to a conclusion of moving the Natives towards the West. He promised the Native American tribes the district of Mississippi, but a lot of tribes were against this treaty. Prior to Jackson’s presidency, Jefferson sent a letter to Jackson to advise the Native Americans to “sell their ‘useless’ forests”.
In Cold Mountain, the story is set in a fictional town in the southern area of the Appalachian mountains in Several times throughout the story, Charles Frazier describes every component and detail of the nature. In The Road everything is described as dark and covered in ashes because of the destruction and wildfires produced by the apocolypse. “They passed through the city at noon of the day following. He kept the boy close to his side. The city was mostly burned.
Mountain Men went into the Louisiana Territory during the early 1800s and they trapped beavers for the hides and fur. They traded the hides and furs for goods that they needed to live in the mountains like: salt, tobacco, lead, powder, knives, whiskey, traps and sugar. Some Mountain Men took Indian brides and lived part of the year with the tribe. Their life was often lonely and it could be dangerous.
The mountain acts as the antagonist by luring Wetherton into a high risk high reward situation. The first reason the setting is important it is the object that makes him decide between greed and satisfaction.
The novel Strange as this Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake, displays the destruction caused by mountain top removal of the Appalachian Mountains in a small town in West Virginia, and the struggles it has created for a family that inhabits the mountain. Pancakes description of the land and those who inhabit it displays the relationship between the characters and the mystery behind the coal mining throughout the novel. Throughout the novel, Pancake displays the numerous struggles Lace and Jimmy Makes family face, many of which were directly a result of the coal mining taking place in their back yard. One character that is greatly affected by the results of coal mining, not only on the environment, but on her town as a whole, is Bant, Lace and
Silko lives fully with the nature relating to it, his tribe believe that one originated from the depths of the earth (Silko, 1999). A Pueblo believes that one is part of the landscape he is standing on, Silko writes “There is no high mesa edge or mountain peak where one can stand and not immediately be part of all that surrounds” (Silko, 1999). Silko and his people try to be and relate to the earth as much as they can. Nelson would prefer to do what he came out to do (kill deer for food) and then go back to his warm cabin. He does not connect to the earth in the same way Silko does, Nelson bundles up before he goes outside so he does not feel the cold, while Silko would love to feel the sting of the could fresh on his face.
When Jeannette and her family resettles in Battle Mountain, their house was filled with different animals such as dogs, cats, nonpoisonous snakes, lizards and etc. Her each member of the family loved animals and that’s why wherever they moved, they always have animals with them. They even have an injured buzzard for a while, which they name and called as Buster. He is very offensive animals that they ever owned. He is a hateful bird, and Jeannette is glad when his broken wing is healed and he is allowed to fly away.
Women took on hard work, as exemplified in the photo of the women collecting cow chips. In my opinion, life in the photos seems quite extreme. Entire families were crowded into a small tent or poorly constructed dugout, and fences were often necessary to keep out livestock. The stories gave more detailed images of the adversities that early pioneers faced in the Indian Territory. Wild animals plagued their houses, and unfavorable weather threatened their way of life.
There was a stove in the center of the hutment, and she wasn’t allowed to cook on it. During winter in this crammed space, ice, frost, and snow would blow in through the open windows, and make the poor residents suffer. These terrible conditions of overcrowding and a lack of sufficient homes created terrible conditions of suffering and personal sacrifice to the people of Oak
In “Wordsmith” by Young and “The Gold Mountain coat” by Fong Bates both passages show relationships between fathers and their children. The relationship between father and daughter in “Wordsmith” contrasts greatly with the type of relationship that Sam Sing has with his children. Although the relationships are very different, both passages show the importance of communication between family members. In “Wordsmith” the father is trying to fix the relationship between him and his daughter like how he is trying to fix the maintenance of the house, “he begins the... process of filling in the gaps...
David Laskin’s The Children’s Blizzard explains the devastating force of an intense blizzard, which caught several people unprepared, and it tells the tragic stories of these people. On January 12, 1888 a massive blizzard struck the center of North America, killing between 250 to 500 people and affecting thousands. There were many factors that made this blizzard exceptionally deadly. Many farmers and children who were outside were unprepared to deal with any cold conditions, “a day when children had raced to school with no coats or gloves and farmers were far from home doing chores they had put off during the long siege of cold” (Laskin 2).
Gray with a flannel fog of winter describes the Salinas Valley where Elisa lives and the dress and manners she has on her ranch in the foothills. Confined by the dark fog that restricts the valley and the surrounding mountains like a “lid placed on a pot,” she and the valley have no sunshine, no happiness, no noise, and no warmth. While the Allen ranch is clean and organized, a feeling of oppression and entrapment is felt in the physical setting and is seen in the development of the character Elisa. The valley, “Closed off” by the winter fog and isolated from other life, Elisa is also trapped and closed off in a life behind her garden gates.
When we are young, every day is a learning experience. Every moment in the car with our parents, every interaction with our best friend for the week at daycare, every meal, every something to cry about shape who we are going to be and cement our personalities and characteristics. Some of the most influential experiences I had as a child came from my days as a competitive cheerleader. The glittering competitions and the constant rehearsals left me with a love for performance and discipline, both great qualities that have helped me overcome struggles and better myself. However, the social aspects of competitive cheerleading left a negative cast on my beliefs and, particularly, on my perception of beauty and its connection to success.
In a novel or book, the setting can have a major effect on the character. It can also play a role in a major conflict of a story. In the book, "A Long Walk to Water" by Linda Sue Park, the setting, being a desert, takes effect in influencing characters, plot, and mood throughout the story. Firstly, the setting of this novel causes Nya to experience many feelings and emotion such as pain, sorrow, and grief.
