An Essay About Living In The Catskills

In the 1800’s there were very few major towns in the Ozarks and many of the people relied on the mills and church to hear about news and to tell their own stories. Wright harnesses this key factor of the Ozarks to set up several scenes with Jed Holland and Young Matt. The mill is also the place where Young Matt shows off to the people and gives Wash Gibbs motivation to get back at him and his close friends (Chapter 10). This wouldn’t be possible without the idea of an entire community coming together to gather at the mill and show off to one another while they have the chance. The isolation factor also contributes by providing a huge gap of knowledge in between the city and the rural country. The Ozark natives are awed and amazed by the city and feel as if the people who live there are all incredibly educated and have more valuable knowledge than the average outdoorsman. Meanwhile the strangers from the city come to the countryside to enter into a life of peace and beauty. Both Daniel Howitt and his son loved the Ozarks because of the life-changing experiences that occur there. This gap is caused by the isolation of the Ozarks and creates a two-sided story. On one hand the city appears to be the ultimate goal for some woodsmen, while on the other the people leave the city and come to the country because of its remoteness from the hustle and bustle of the city. This

Jason glanced through the car window as his father pulled into the driveway of their new house, dirty and plain. Their family had moved from Texas into a house in the misty woods with the nearest city, Flora, half a mile away. I don’t like this place thought Jason.

The speaker conveys family value is more important than any monetary value. The tree represents the growth of the family and how it is now intertwined with the house through the, "roots in the cellar drains" (Oliver 11). Nothing can replace the sentimental value the tree represents. There is a shift in the theme from the beginning. The speaker wanted to sell the tree for the money, demonstrating theme that sometimes things must be sacrificed in order to provide for practical needs.

It wasn’t his choice to live here. He couldn’t remember ever having a choice. He looked down at the street below and marveled at the buildings. The buildings were the one thing he could enjoy here. He could appreciate architecture.

In Bryson’s story ,A Walk in the Woods Bryson uses similes, imagery and humor to describe his reasoning of going in to the woods. A Walk in the Woods has a tone of reverent which corresponds with his desire to venture into the woods. Bryson compares the Appalachian Mountains to a grandfather, “The AT is the granddaddy of long hikes”. By his comparison of the Appalachian Mountains to a grandfather gives the reader that mountains to him was like a matriarch of a family that was the foundation to all hikes that came after it.

A Walk in the Woods Chapters 5-9 Page 102-103 “Even in ideal circumstances…his expression bug-eyed and fearful.” After finishing the first nine chapters of A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson, detailing the first-hand experience of hiking through the Appalachian Trail, a certain passage displays many of the rhetorical strategies Bryson uses to develop his story and tone. In this particular passage, Bryson details the extreme distances he traveled on the trail with his companion, Stephen Katz, and the dangers they encountered due to the severe weather as they preceded with “painstaking deliberativeness”. Through Bryson’s use of simile, imagery, and onomatopoeia he creates a disheartening and ambivalent tone that reflects the struggles and endurance he underwent on the trail while captivating his audience. Bryson develops his tone and story by forming a simile to describe how one section of the trail was

Sam finally comes to the house because his regiment was encamped their so Tim was hoping that Sam would stay and start to help (Collier, 1974). When Susannah asked Sam when his time was over Sam told her that it was the next month but he was going to reenlist (Collier, 1974). Before Sam’s regiment leaves Redding, they arrest him for the crime of cow theft and Tim then knows Sam was going to be gone for a long time (Collier, 1974). The countries coming of age is shown right in Tim’s eyes when the redcoats come to Redding and the behead Ned and burn down some houses. (Collier, 1974). The country had even more coming of age as the prices of everything began to go down and they had taxes on things like nails, tea, glass, paint, anything with sugar in it, and anything to do with postage (Collier,

Archaeologists believe that the first human beings to enter North America traveled from Siberia between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago. During the Ice Age, a period in time named for the reduction in the Earth's temperature, ocean levels receded, exposing land that was previously covered by the Bering Sea (2). The ancestors of Native Americans were able to walk across the land from present-day Siberia to the landmass that, today, is known as Alaska. Prior to 1550, the ancestors of Native Americans were nomadic hunters and gatherers, meaning they traveled in search of food. Around 1550, Native American tribes were practicing settlement. Settlements consisted of small villages that were centered on hunting, fishing, or farming (2). Approximately thirty Native American tribes settled on the land that is now known as North Carolina including, the Cherokee, the Catawba, the Tuscarora, the Cape Fear, and the Waccamaw tribes (2).

Sam was born in Salem, Oregon at the Salem Hospital. Until the age of two her family used to live in apartments. When her mother got pregnant with her younger brother, Victor, they moved to their 3- bedroom house where they now reside. Her first language was spanish and she didn’t learn english until she started kindergarten. Before she entered school her education had already started. Her mother used to make her sit down and practice math equations and learn the

The double meanings of the description of the physical setting illustrate the finer tuned details of the character. The narrator describes the "wild" garden behind his house containing a "central" apple-tree, perhaps suggesting that within the chaos in life some things remain central and focused. Amid the narrator's chaotic

Carrie stared out the window of the car at the endless plains outside. People always described this kind of scenery as boring or dull, yet Carrie enjoyed looking at it. She needed the reminder that vast open spaces such as this still existed. After living with her father in the big city for nearly three years, Carrie had had enough. Moving back to her childhood home was a tough decision, but she needed to see something natural and the city parks would never be enough. Nobody can really enjoy a city park; the officials chase down and ticket those who “abuse” the grounds. Carrie collected quite a few tickets for, of all things, climbing trees. People climbed trees all the time where Carrie came from and the worst that happened was a scraped knee or a broken branch.

woods and decides to live there. There is nothing in it, so he tries to "imagine a happy

Living in Hailsham is probably the easiest life Kathy and her friends are ever going to get to live. In the novel Never Let Me Go it states “The woods were at the top of the hill that rose behind Halsham house. All we could see really was a dark fringe of trees, but I certainly wasn't the only one of my age to feel their presence day and night” ( Ishiguro 50).  This quote shows how the woods which are  staring down on Hailsham are what frightens these kids and what keeps them from having their own ideas and from getting up and leaving because they are scared of what could happen and because they don't know anything aside from what they've been taught and the beliefs they've been shown. This can be related to Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” because in the cave people are held captive and taught certain ways of living and they are obedient and they stay in the cave and never try to leave because they are not aware that they can leave when they want and the only thing keeping them there is the fact that they only believe in the things they've been taught in that cave so it is going to be scary for them to

When Willy and Linda purchased their home in Brooklyn, it seemed far removed form the city. Willy was young and strong and he believed he had a future full of success. He and his sons cut the tree limbs that threatened his home and put up a hammock that he would enjoy with his children. The green fields

My Wooded World Sheila Visingardi tells a story about how nature plays a huge part in her life. As a child she would sit in the beautiful, relaxing, woods and let her mind wander. It was as if the branches would call to her. (Lines 2-4) As the speaker grows older the woods have become an escape for her. The woods represent a sanctuary. This is where she feels inspired and creative, and also safe and at home. It is “a world full of imagination, creativity, resourcefulness, as well as inspiration.” (Lines 7-8)