Laura Ingalls Wilder Childhood

A small town life is seen as many things to many different people. Some see living in a small town as a chance for more opportunities; others see it as a blueprint for insanity. However, as I read Thorton Wilder’s Our Town, I perceived his interpretation of said life, as a celebration. Thorton Wilder adds a variety of happy experiences and sense of community and familiarity, which I believe is why the habitants of the town love their home.

Have you ever wondered about how people lived in the late 1800s in America? Historians aren’t the only ones who can teach you about those times. Laura Ingalls Wilder lived in those days and experienced all of the joys, pain and hardship of living the pioneer life. She decided to write about her experiences later in life, and those writings became famous for providing a window into what life was like then. This paper will detail the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her contributions to literature and recording american history as the writer of the Little House book series.

It is the summer of 1970 in Northern Ohio. The Hadley family is the wealthiest family out of all the families that populates the city of Toledo. They all live in a subdivision called Old Timbers Valley with mother, Lydia, father, George, and Peter and Wendy. The Darling family lives in a sky blue house on top of clouds, the Tremaine family lives in the old, enchanted house, and Old Man Geppetto lives in an Old-Italian village home. Unlike the others, the Hadley’s house is future realistic, full of technology. From lights turning on and off as one walks, stoves making food, sinks washing dishes, a nursey that illuminates the children’s imagination, and so many more laborless enhancements. The children’s nursey is called the Veldt, which can

They had started the journey to their new home in the winter of 1838. The Adahy family along with their numerous friends and other family members, were extremely scared. They had no idea what was going to happen and about where their destination would exactly be. They walked on foot for the majority of the time and used their slaves and horses to carry their belongings.

In fitful sleep, she dreamt dreams of Indians, palmettos, cotton, tobacco, rice, indigo, and eagles flying through the skies calling to her, telling her to take this trail or that, and her reaching up, trying to catch them before they flew away. The next morning, she helped Nancy build a fire under the big, black iron pot out back of the cabin and then fill it with water so they could wash clothes. About an hour later, as they hung the first of the wash on the line, they heard a rider coming up the back trail; the trail that led down to Fort Charlotte.

In the detailed story of an impoverished family during the late 1900’s, Jeannette Walls describes her experience from the young age of 3, up until adulthood. The family of 6, with Rex Walls as the father, Rose Mary as the mother, and her three siblings, Lori, Brian and Maureen, were constantly moving throughout the country with little to no food or cash. The memoir shows how dysfunctional the family was, but never seemed to force the reader to condemn the parents. In a life of poverty, the have to move for own to town, and often lived in various mining towns. Although they each found something they learned to love (like Jeannette’s rock collection) in the desert, they had to leave them behind once Rex’s alcoholism only worsened, and they ran

This family faced countless challenges as they homestead on America’s Great Plains during the 1800's. Years of hard work develop the land and improve the quality

     One manner in which this unusual place can be seen is in the women's privileged relationship to the land in the text. While Jim Burden attends school, it is Antonia who shapes and works the new land that the pioneers inhabit, going "from farm to farm" to

In the 1910s Wilder 's daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, by then grown up and a reporter for the San Francisco Bulletin, encouraged her mother to write about her childhood. In the 1920s, Wilder 's first attempt at writing an autobiography, called Pioneer Girl, was uniformly rejected by publishers. Determined to succeed, Wilder spent the next several years reworking her writing,

The family agrees to help their father out, to take a trip to Jefferson, and complete the last wish from their mother. The first real day of their trip takes a major turn for the worst causing the family to work together to please their mother. A bad flood the previous night causes the family to lose not only the wagon but the coffin as well. with some help from Tull (a family friend and bystander at the time) they get the coffin and wagon out before anything is really destroyed. Some of the characters have to sacrifice something that means a lot to them to afford new mules to continue their journey. Anse (Addie’s husband) sells all his farm equipment and uses his money that he has been saving up for new teeth. Cash gives up money he has been saving for a new gramophone and Jewel trades in his

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,

Laura Ingalls creates the boyish persona to fulfill a role in her family and because of the frontier world she is raised. When a family settled on land, it is expected that all family members will participate in the tilling of the land however; females are usually regulated to the less strenuous farming activity like retrieving water and tending the crop. The hard manual labor is usually delegated to the male members of the family. From an early age, Laura wanted to work alongside her Pa on the farm and he encourages this by praising her masculine desire by saying “There’s nothing like help when a man has a big job to do” (Wilder OBPC 14) when she wanted to help build the little house on the prairie. All three of these young women are typical

The family traveled together, leaving Sweden from the country’s southern port of Malmö on June 30, 1881 destined for Glasgow, Scotland or Larne, Ireland. From one of these British Isle ports, the Engströms embarked on their trans-Atlantic crossing on board the ship, State of Florida, destined for New York City. Following their arrival in New York they undertook their inland journey, probably by rail, to North Branch, Minnesota.38 Subsequent to and undoubtedly a consequence of the immigration, the surname Engström became the anglicized version Engstrom.39 Their apparent mid- to late-summer arrival in North Branch necessitated a year long period without the full benefits of the sustenance gained from the husbandry of their own land. Consequently, they possibly survived by working for previous settlers. In addition to Olof and Anna, the three children, roughly twenty-one, eighteen, and sixteen years of age, perhaps sought employment. Whether immediately following their arrival or at a later date the family settled on a farm less than a mile east of Harris, Chisago County, Minnesota, a community with rail service five miles north of North Branch.40 Furthermore, a distance by pioneer roads of approximately ten miles separated the Swenson farm, to the northwest, from the Engstrom

lonely part of the prairie on the edge of the Osage Diminished Reserve, Pa believed

The stream was calm, fresh morning dew on the ground, the smell of sweat flowers in the air, and the smell of the flour on the other side of the river. My friend, Jason, and I, Marisa were walking to my Uncle Lidtke’s mill across the bridge. We would walk there every Saturday to watch the workers and my uncle would make us a great meal with bread that was made from the flour from the mill.