The Search for Peace Welcome to another western style book, Louis L’amour’s “The Empty Land”. This book is for readers who love action and adventure novels. This book takes place in the 1860’s in the mountains of Utah. The book begins with a man named Dick Felton, who is searching for gold. Felton had the exact location of a rich place to claim from a trapper named Jim twenty years ago. Jim had sold everything to go and find the place once again. That didn’t last very long; Jim was killed by the Utes Indians. The Indians knew who the trapper was and didn’t strip or mutilate the body. Dick Felton decided to take several of his trusted companions, Downey, Cohan, and Zeller. All of them set off to go find the place which Jim had talked about. A week into the adventure the group runs into a Ute Indian raid. Felton had lost Downey, but that didn’t stop them from pushing forward to find the gold. All of them found a …show more content…
One day Zeller had taken two pans from a bench on the inside bend of a wash, both of them showed color. One of the fragments was rough, indicating it had come from a short distance. That night Felton said, “I’ve got a feeling.” The second pan looked even better. At daybreak the next day Felton suggested they take a break. He smoked his pipe, while scanning the hills for movement. Just as he leaned over to knock out his pipe he saw a chunk of rock literally seaming with gold. The three of them decided to set up the Discovery Mine. All at once it draws lots and lots of economic prospects. Along with masses of miners, businessmen, and saloon owners. All of these people had set up in the little town of Confusion, Utah. The three men had thought it would be a good idea to set up in Confusion. The three of them thought wrong, thieves, murderers, and gamblers. The little town soon became a place of the worst of crimes anyone has ever
Mary Fragalla Mrs. Teague Honors American Literature 10 December 2015 Reading Portfolio Assignment Author’s Background and Purpose John Knowles wrote his novel "A Separate Peace" after his memories from his years at the Phillips Exter Academy in New Hampshire. John Knowles grew up in a small town in Fairmont, West Virginia. He came from a wealthy family.
Angela Mercado HISA137 Prof. Hackel 21 May 2015 Technologies Impact on The Economy of the Midwestern Frontier In John Mack Faragher’s 1986 historic work Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie, he examines the first generation of a Midwestern community; looking closely at those who settled in this small section of rural Illinois (Faragher xiii). Faragher specifically analyzes the development of the Sugar Creek Valley in the six decades before the American Civil War. In 1819, there was little to no settlements among the Sugar Creek area, however, as time passed and technology advanced, the socioeconomic position of the area changed. How settlers farmed their land and exported their products changed drastically and the Sugar Creek Valley became a hotspot for economical gain.
There is always that one person that makes a story so interesting and impossible to get one's eyes off of. The novel, Montana 1948 by Larry Watson was a book that had good, bad and terrible things in it. A family that was well known to the town of Bentrock was involved with multiple incidents that brought negativity to the people. It was a town diversified between Indian and Caucasians. People that were influential to the novel made bad choices, caused and solved problems and also led to serious moments that others couldn’t see meaning and truth behind.
A separate peace by John Knowles is book that takes place at a boarding school and a big part of it is looking at how tragedy can change a characters personality. Gene Forrester the protagonist and narrator of the novel is a great example of this. At the beginning of the book he is envious of his best friend Phineas and will do anything to be the best, but as the book goes on and tragedy strikes all he feels is guilt. Before the tragedy of Finny breaking his leg gene is envious of him.
They sit in their canoe, hungry and tired. Then one night, they see a cabin as they are going by in the water. They sneak in through the window and go to sleep, since it is too dark to see anything. When they get up, they explore a dead body. Jim says, "It 's a dead man.
He went into the Uncharted Forest and he is joined there by his love, a girl called Liberty 5-3000. They rediscover the lost language of itself and use his new knowledge to build a society.
Peace, an unreachable goal. It will never truly happen, unless you are in John Knowles novel A Separate Peace. In A Separate Peace, John Knowles uses characterization to convey character growth. Character growth is a very important part of the development of A Separate Peace. Gene, the protagonist, has to grow in his friendships and life as World War II encroaches on his life.
Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses, written in 1992, depicts the concept of the “new west” verses the “old west” in a coming-of-age story centering on the protagonist, John Grady. McCarthy’s rough, plain, yet captivating style of writing romanticizes western landscape. The landscape, which is vividly described, is for the most part, glorified, and raises the question: is the west purely an idealized conception? The western landscape in All the Pretty Horses is romanticized and this is significant because the themes of isolation, nostalgia, and freedom are viewed pastorally as well.
We use fantasy to cope in many ways. We escape from reality in books, movies, and in our dreams. However, when we allow those fantasies to take more control--break into our reality-- and mask the events that we should be coping with; it becomes almost detrimental to our perception of reality itself. We begin to believe more in our imagination than reality. When that bubble of fantasy is popped, so is the peace that it had brought you in the situation.
This novel is enjoyable and buoyant story of the fathers and sons of the Dakotas, which gives a light feel on a rather heavy subject matter. Dan, a Lakota elder, has seen it all. The elder strongly speaks the truth about the “Indian” life, past and present. Dan refuses to forget and get over the historical clashes between the whites and his people. The author comes with certain expectations and mind set about the Indians, but his ideology is shattered when Dan refuses to be marked down as just another old Native American wise man.
Oral History, Lee Smith’s fifth novel, was published in 1983 and garnered national attention due to its status as a “Book-of-the-Month Club” selection (“Biography”). Oral History opens at the base of Hoot Owl Mountain, home to the remaining descendants of the almost mythical Cantrell family. A younger and somewhat estranged family member, Jennifer, comes to the Appalachian setting to gather information about her unknown past for a college assignment, appropriately termed “Oral History.” She is drawn to the small, now coal-mining community due to a legend surrounding the Cantrell family and their former home, Hoot Owl Holler. The legend morphed into a ghost story involving a haunted cabin, witchcraft, and a supposed curse on the family at hand.
The book Montana 1948 by Larry Watson makes you think about the injustices throughout the novel. This book is based on a true story of a 12 year old boy named David, who grew up in Montana after WWII. David shares this book in first person perspective. He talks about what his family is going through and how they have to put up with Uncle Franks crime. While reading this true story we learn that taking advantage of our power can lead to mortal consequences.
Grant Willard Jiroch/P4 A Separate Peace Response There is a lot of conflicts in A Separate Peace, but the main conflict would be Gene and Finny’s relationship. Their relationship is a love-hate relationship. They are close and then apart and then the relationship disappears. Gene is the brains of between the two of them and adores Finny who is Gene`s best friend. Finny is the athletic one, the best athlete in school even.
He and his two companions, Delmar and Pete break out of prison and go looking for treasure. He makes up the search for treasure to enlist the help of Delmar and Pete. In reality, he is just trying to get back to his wife Penny and stop her from getting remarried.
Most people envision a perfect place as a place peaceful and secluded. However, this place may not always seem perfect. A canyon that is a perfect, untouched place is the setting for the short story All Gold Canyon by Jack London. This story has a human vs. nature conflict in it that is the basis for the whole story. To truly understand this story one must know that symbolism of nature, the conflicts, and why Jack London probably wrote this story.