a field of wheat essay
A Field Of Wheat
Ashtan Wapass Nov, 26th/2014 Ms.Martin ELA 30
I choose Martha…
The wife of a wheat farmer struggles to find her place in her marriage during the 1930’s. Although the story is not captivating, it shows the resiliency of the human spirit, as Martha and John kept on despite their terrible living conditions, their isolation, and the harshness of the land that John farmed.
It is the tale of a women’s struggle to find her place in her marriage. Martha’s husband John has always relied on him. Then after a hail storm, which destroyed their crops, it was revealed how strong Martha really was and how her husband also relied on her.
The point of view of the burned out farm wife wavering between desperation and endurance seals the imagery of the story into apposition of the hope of every crops inherent gamble, born on the back of the husband, John.
Martha has seen and recognizes the gamble. She can name, not so lightly, the calamity that has been the end of so many crops, and this crop is the best one ever.
Martha makes a mental list of how deserved her John is for this success as she ticks of the list, “A crop like this was coming to him” he had the share of failures and the setbacks, if ever a man’s land , 20 times over wasting and unending it was a struggle, struggle against wind and insects, drought and weed!.
Ashtan Wapass Nov, 26th/2014 Ms.Martin ELA 30
I choose Martha…
The wife of a wheat farmer struggles to find her place in her marriage during the 1930’s. Although the story is not captivating, it shows the resiliency of the human spirit, as Martha and John kept on despite their terrible living conditions, their isolation, and the harshness of the land that John farmed.
It is the tale of a women’s struggle to find her place in her marriage. Martha’s husband John has always relied on him. Then after a hail storm, which destroyed their crops, it was revealed how strong Martha really was and how her husband also relied on her.
The point of view of the burned out farm wife wavering between desperation and endurance seals the imagery of the story into apposition of the hope of every crops inherent gamble, born on the back of the husband, John.
Martha has seen and recognizes the gamble. She can name, not so lightly, the calamity that has been the end of so many crops, and this crop is the best one ever.
Martha makes a mental list of how deserved her John is for this success as she ticks of the list, “A crop like this was coming to him” he had the share of failures and the setbacks, if ever a man’s land , 20 times over wasting and unending it was a struggle, struggle against wind and insects, drought and weed!.