Emotions In Karen Hesse's 'Out Of The Dust'

Night by Elie Wiesel develops many themes such as: emotional death, the struggle to maintain faith, and self-preservation versus family commitment. Night is a story of a young Jewish boy, Elie, sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War. Elie is the narrator of the story. Throughout the story, Elie experiences many experiences that will haunt him eternally. Wiesel writes about Elie’s horrendous experiences, feelings, and thoughts at Auschwitz. The themes emotional death, the struggle to maintain faith, and self-preservation versus family commitment are prevalent in Elie’s story of perseverance and triumph despite hard circumstances.

Billie Jo Kelby is not a boy. She’s a girl; a wiry, thin, redheaded girl that looks more like her father than her mother. She lives on the Great Plains in 1935, during the great drought known as the Dust Bowl. She lives with her pregnant mother and her father, and life seems good, or as good as it will get in her dusty world.

The Dust Bowl affected children in a big way by ruining their health, and causing them to see extricating things. “The children of the Dust Bowl saw things that no one, no matter what their age, should see. And they are as capable as any witness of telling those things with devastating directness.”(Williford) This analyzes that the children had seen things that in today's life, other children could not handle

According to Egan, “Never let the kids see you sweat” (2006, p.1). The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan was announced as “a classical disaster tale” by the New York Times. This book was written to inform everyone about the untold story of those who survived the American Dust Bowl. The story documents how the darkest years of the Great Depression affected the economy and the people’s living environment as well. Egan’s book explains the importance of the Great Depression. Within this theme, Egan explores the struggle of survival and the broken promises made by the government.

She was old, around her 60’s to 70’s. Each cheekbone outlined to the slightest. Her hair frizzy on top like cotton. She wore a shawl pinned together by a safety pin. Her name was Evelyn Marshall Thomas. Evelyn worked at a hair dresser, and everyone knew her. She was respected amongst everyone in the town and was the “grandma” of the town. People would go to her to talk and express their feelings like she was their therapist, but Evelyn had problems too; she lived in heavy poverty. Everyday Evelyn had the same routine: she woke up, readied herself for the day, and left for work, on the walk to work she say the same people: the newspaper boy on his runs, the florist tending to her flourishing flowers, the corner store owner who zealously ran around his store preparing for the forthcoming day. Her life was as simple as possible.

Have you ever heard of the dust bowl? The Dust Bowl is a tragic eight years of endless drought and dust storms that never end. The book Out of the Dust captures the Dust Bowl tragedies very accurately, but is still a fictional book. Out of the Dust is a story of a young girl named Billie Jo. Billie Jo is an 11 year old when the Dust Bowl starts. The Dust Bowl by Jan Meyer is about the affects the Dust Bowl took on people, especially the farmers like Billie Jo’s Dad and Joe De La Flor. Out of the Dust is historically accurate because the author, Karen Hesse, includes details about the terrible dust storms and extreme loss of livestock.

Life is a precious thing, and it is so precious that some people will undergo severe anguish to hold on to it. During the 1930’s and 1940’s in Germany, people of the Jewish religion were diabolically oppressed and slaughtered, just for their beliefs. Some Jews went to extreme measures to evade capture by the German law enforcement, hoping to hold on to life. Krystyna Chiger was only a small child when her family, along with a group of other desperate Jews, descended into the malignant sewers to avoid the Germans. After living in the abysmal sewers for fourteen months, her group emerged, and when she became an adult, she authored a novel about her time in the sewer. When analyzing the literary elements utilized in her novel, The Girl in the Green Sweater, one can determine how tone and mood, point of view, and conflict convey the message of struggle and survival that was experienced during the Holocaust, and how they help the reader to understand and relate.

" The dust Bowl Odyssey" written by James West Davidson and Mark Lytle. Tells the readers of a story not too different from "Mirror with a memory" also written by James West Davidson and Mark Lytle. The concept and story line portrayed in this book discusses struggles of many early American citizens, the life as well as hardships that was endured, the poverty, worry and hopelessness that was lived. Interestingly enough I my self not being born a citizen of the United States of America look at the booming business industries and the housing industries which gives a portrait of a thriving economical system. But reading the "Dust Bowl Odyssey" allows me along with other readers to understand that although America is a successful and thriving country it is not without its sacrifices.

Have you ever felt dust or sand in your teeth, people had to deal with this every day. In the book out of the dust by Warren Hesse, she talks about how people struggled during the dust storm. Billie Jo faced a lot over the years, some big some big. One struggle that she faced was when my died and she was left alone with her dad that was not taking it well.

The setting of the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is set in an urban, nameless city around the year 2053. Bradbury wrote the novel in 1953, and set the novel a century later. In this futuristic novel, there is a very sad and gloomy feeling. It also has a feeling of emptiness and unhappiness; this was caused by the government regulations and societal views, along with the absence of knowledge and communication. These crucial elements in the story all contribute to the overall mood in Fahrenheit 451.

Billie was born to the name, Eleanora Fagan on April 7, 1915. She was born in Philadelphia but grew up in the Fell's Point section of Baltimore. Her mother, was just 13 at the time of her birth; her father, was 15. Holidays' teenage parents, Sadie Harris (aka Fagan) and probable father, Clarence Holiday, never married, and they did not live together for a long time. Clarence, a banjo and guitar player worked with Fletcher Henderson's band in the early 30s. He remains a shady figure who left his family. Clarence would often be away from home, and during the stay with Henderson, which lasted until 1932, the guitarist severed connections with the Fagans. Billie was an angry chile who lived a hard life. She was raped at the age of 10 soon

In the beginning, the author explains how this young girl, Lizabeth, lived in the culturally deprived neighborhood during the depression.  Lizabeth is at the age where she is just beginning to become a young woman and is

Her father made his living as a jazz musician and later he left Billie’s mother. Billie was raised by her mother and grandparents. Billie was not a happy child and eventually left school at an early age. It was rumored that she became a prostitute like her mother. (www.numberonestars.com, 2010)

The Dust Bowl, a series of severe dust storms in the 1930’s, left the southern plains of the United States as a wasteland. The storms occurred due to the lack of use of dryland farming techniques to prevent wind erosion. Powerful winds would pick up loose soil and carry the sediment around the countryside. Called “black blizzard” or “black rollers”, these storms had the potential to black out the sky completely. Due to the inability to grow and sell crops, banks evicted families and foreclosed their properties, leaving them homeless and without an income. The author of The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, wrote his American realist novel to allow readers to understand the experiences of the migrants from the Dust Bowl era. Not many

Early in their lives, two young sisters, Ruth and Lucille, experience loss and abandonment from the men in the family. Their grandfather had died in a train derailment into Lake Fingerbone before they were born, and their father leaves them while they are very young. Then their mother commits suicide, but not before dropping the girls off on their grandmother’s porch. Moreover, then, “she sailed in Bernice’s Ford from the top of a cliff named Whiskey Rock into the blackest depth of the lake (23), again into Lake Fingerbone. After only a few months their grandmother dies leaving the girls to the remainder of the family, a collection of eccentric females. The girls deal with all of this by relying on each other. Soon, their great Aunt’s,