Summary Of Hitch By Jeanette Ingolds

Jeanette Ingolds book, Hitch, is about a young teenage boy, named Moss, who is looking to make his family’s life better while living in the Great Depression. He starts off in the book working at an airfield that supports him and his family. But is informed he is being let go, so the directors brother in law can work to provide for his family. Moss receives a letter from his Ma telling him that things in Louisiana are rough and that his father Pa went missing after the last paycheck. He then decides to go look for his father. He arrives into Miles City and asks the train station director where Fort Peck Dam is. He then goes to use the bath to clean up. He later arrives at Fort Peck and asks where Jackson Trawnley is. Moss then finds out that his father had a job there but then found out his father
The next morning a police officers wakes up the two and asks them if they are homeless. Moss quickly replies by saying that they are waiting for there train. Moss hears a horn
Mills 2 and tells the officer that the train just arrived. When they get into a freight car a worker finds them and says if they don’t get off he will then have to press charges. But instead of telling he police he tells Moss he should join the CCC, civilian conservation corps. His father denies the offer but Moss takes it and is sent to Denver to work where the remainder of the story takes place. To start off this reviewing I am going to review the characters of the story. I am going to start off with Moss Trawnley, he is a teenage boy who is in the middle of the Great Depression. Moss is a strong, hardworking individual who is trying to provide for his family since his father left without notice one day. Jackson Trawnley (Pa), is a drunk who can not keep a job due to his laziness and drunkenness. Nate and Apple are Moss’s friends that he makes in the CCC and they uplift him and support