The novel takes place in Holcomb, Kansas, a small farming town with a tight knit community. The Clutters are a prominent and cherished family known throughout the town. Herb is a successful farmer, married for 25 years to Bonnie Fox and is the father of four children. At home, two of his children remain; 16 year old Nancy and 15 year old Kenyon. Discovered by two young girls the next morning, the community is struck by the horrific murders of the Clutters on the night of November 15th, 1959, an event too gruesome for anyone to believe. Meanwhile, nearly 400 miles away in Olathe, Kansas, the two killers; ex-convicts; Dick (28) and Perry (31), proceed with a normal evening as if nothing had occurred the night before.…
The story starts off in 1704 in a colonial town of Deerfield where Mohawk Indians (who were allies with the French) attacked the town…
The story starts with a cowhand named Milo Talon meeting with a rich man named Jefferson Henry. Jefferson Henry hires Milo Talon to find a girl that had been “missing” for years. He meets a girl named Molly Fletcher in a restaurant, who seems to be a lot more involved in the fishy situation than she lets on. Milo Talon befriends Molly Fletcher, and acquires a job at the restaurant for her, where she will make some money for herself and be safe. As Milo Talon delves further into his search, he realizes that the situation is much more dangerous and complicated. He also realizes that he is not the only one searching for this girl, and that the others mean to do her harm. The dangerous people (as well as Jefferson Henry) are motivated…
David’s mother worked as a secretary in the Register of Deeds office which was in the courthouse. This meant that the family had a housekeeper who lived with them during the week. Her name was Marie Little Solider and she was a Hunkpapa Sioux who originally came from the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota. She was in her early twenties and was close to six feet tall and wore cotton print dresses. David worshipped Marie’s boyfriend, Ronnie Tall Bear.…
The story is ingeniously told through narration of a grandfather reading the Princess Bride to his sick grandson. It begins when Westly and Buttercup…
In 1836, in East Texas, a war group of Comanche has kidnapped, a nine-year-old girl named Cynthia Ann Parker. The Indian tribe took her in and raised her as if she was a natural part of their tribe. She was welcomed by the tribe and eventually became the wife of a warrior. Ethan Edwards, (John Wayne) an embittered veteran, who returns home to Texas after the Civil War.…
The story starts out by first telling the back stories of each of the three…
On Christmas the couple had there first baby girl, they named her Katherine McKinley. The McKinley's were all happy until Ida McKinley became very sick. Not long after Ida gave birth to another baby but within a year…
One day she met a girl named Shay, they met each other hiding behind bushes in Pretty Town because…
who live in the cottage in the rural Ireland with their old brother Jack. The whole story is told…
s wife was the only woman on the ranch and no one would talk to her…
As the story begins I see the description of why the place was considered the Rainy Mountains. First he explains why it was considered an old land mark to his family. Then he began to go into details and what it looks like and what the weather is like. A good description was when Momaday said, “Winter brings blizzards, hot tornadic winds arise in the spring, and in summer the prairie is an anvil’s edge. The grass turns brittle and brown, and it cracks beneath your feet.” This was a good description because it showed me that the grass is dried out and it is brittle. Also the description he gave of his grandmother when she was praying was very descriptive. Momaday stated that, “Her long, black hair, always drawn and braided in the day, lay upon her shoulders and against her breast like a shawl.” I do not know why she prays like that but when I read this I kind of just put two and two together and said that what they do in there tribe.…
Place: This story takes places in Indian Territory, in the USA. Before settlers landed on America's shores, Indians resided in what would become Oklahoma ("okla" meaning people and "humma" meaning red, so the state's name literally means "red people")…
Little town on the prairie is a book written by a person named Laura Ingalls Wilder. The book little town on the prairie is 308 pages and is about Laura how she grew up and help her sister got to college.…
The story consists of seven main characters: Mr. Murry, Meg, Charles Wallace, Calvin, and Mrs. Whatsit, Who, and Which. Mr. Murry is the father of Meg and Charles Wallace. Everyone in town knows that he has not had contact with his family in over a year. Meg is a typical high school girl. She feeds and outrageous attitude and does poorly in school. Charles Wallace is Meg's younger brother who is socially awkward around people, but he has a strange connection with them. Calvin is a boy…
