“Your Arkansas Traveler” Is A Short Story Detailing The

The plot revolves around this back woods, mud filled town in Tennessee at the beginning of the twentieth century. The town is populated by red necked Christians, their preacher, and the overly patriotic

Southern family preparing to go on what seems to be a typical vacation. The story is humorous at first because the reader is unaware of how the story will end. The tone changes dramatically from amusing to frightening and plays an important part in making the story effective.

Well the week of our trip to Memphis Tennessee had finally arrived ! My colleagues Beverly,

Ford’s Stagecoach is an epic and revolutionary approach that displays the desert terrain and western inhabitant’s struggles. Stagecoach follows the lives of seven strangers in their attempt to arrive to Lordsburg, New Mexico. Each of these characters reflects the various types of people found in the western world. The film is laced with many American ideals of the time such as xenophobia, chivalry, the conventional standards of women, and much more. Stagecoach defies the conventional western film because it is no longer just men in a desert terrain with rifles.

Arkansas/Arkansaw: How Bear Hunters, Hillbillies, and Good Ol' Boys Defined a State. Brooks Blevins. Fayetteville, AR. 2009. 242 pages

Content with his life as pastor of a small church in Apple Valley Arkansas Adam Wakefield isn’t seeking a change. Adam believes he will live and die in the small cabin he shares with his mother. Then he receives a letter inviting him to become the pastor of the largest church in Chicago. Adam struggles with his decision. The village of Rutherford Gap is far removed

Nick meets tom’s mistress by toms taking him to town to meet her. They arrive at the Wilsons and Miss Wilson comes down the stairs and tells Mr. Wilson to get chairs for their guest. Mrs. Wilson then moves closer to tom to tell him she wants to see him. Nick then realizes that Mrs. Wilson is tom’s mistress.

her personal choices. She receives some assistance to help her manage the struggles of being a single

The setting of this movie takes place around, 1910. At the beginning of the movie there is an establishing shot of, Steve Judd riding into town. Conflict is introduced immediately when he is confronted by a man that is telling everyone to get out of the way the, man stops him and “says move out of the way can’t you hear you old man”. He is always facing adversity even at the age he is at by others that are younger and older than

O’Connor unravels the story with the grandmother reasoning why she believes Tennessee is more ideal for a family vacation, rather than Florida. The grandmother discusses her uncertainty with her “only” son named bailey, whom she lived with, “Here this fellow

Tom Joad, recently released from prison makes his way back to his family. Along the way, Tom meets a man by the name Jim Casy. Jim is an ex-preacher, who now believes sacredness consists simply in endeavoring to be an equal among the people, instead of his teachings that all life was sacred. This just goes to show how living in complete poverty can change a man and his entire belief system. They set out to Tom’s home and find that everyone has been “tractored” off the land. This pretty much means the bank has come to collect money and all the families were too poor to afford to pay, so the bank took the land. The two travel to Tom’s uncle only to find the family packing up to move to California with the promise of fruit picking jobs. Everyone from the family is here at the uncle 's house because their homes were also taken from them. The family heads out together toward California in hope to put their lives back on track and to earn a proper living.

In The Horizontal World, Debra Marquart uses strategies such as defining and ethic appeal. Marquart grew up in North Dakota and explaining how the upper Midwest was like. She uses her strategies with examples of her life and in history to portray the Midwest. Marquart wrote this acknowledging those who have been or are deciding to go to North Dakota. Marquart goes over how people perceive the Midwest and tells her side of it.

The eerie feeling the surrounding lake gave me was threatening, so threatening it made me want to turn back. Usually I can handle cases like this, but this time it was different. It was pitch and the only hint of light was the moon reflecting of the soft waves of the water. The only sounds was the tide, splashing against the old dock I was standing on at a steady pace. I watched my surrounding cautiously. You could never be too careful out here, but with a job like mine, you always have to be careful.

The irony of the story is that it is under the directions of the Grandmother that leads the family into a run in with The Misfit, which is what she told her son she would never do. Throughout the trip we are given examples of the racism that was present during this period. The Grandmother makes multiple racist innuendos such as her observation of the “cute little pickaninny,” and her statement that “little niggers in the country don’t have things like we do” (O’Conner 2). During the ride, The Grandmother convinces Bailey to take a detour down an old, dirt road which supposedly leads to an old southern plantation home she once visited. The road leads them deep into the woods where an accident is caused by The Grandmothers cat, which leaves the car upturned and the family stranded. It is then the family encounters The Misfit, whom discovers them stranded as he was passing by. He approaches the family with two young men and shortly after The Grandmother lets out a scream as she realizes him. During their encounter, the readers are given a small glimpse into the deranged mind of The Misfit. It is apparent that he has an upturned moral compass. He gains pleasure from committing crimes and the meanness that goes along with it. During his conversation with the Grandmother, he slowly has his men take members of the family out

Minny Jackson is married to Leroy, and they have 5 children. She is a very strong women, but who doesn’t take anything from anyone but her husband. Leroy often beats her when he is drunk, but she doesn’t want to tell anyone because she is too embarrassed and looks past it because she loves him so much. It all starts out when Minnie is working for Miss Hilly’s Mother, Miss Walters. Minny does nothing wrong until Miss Hilly makes a rumor about her and tells everyone that Minny has been stealing from her mother. She is later fired and jobless. Aibileen is helping Minny by looking for a job, she answers a phone at Leefolts and on the phone is Celia Rae Foote. Celia is a nice, beautiful young lady in her early twenties. She’s looking for a maid, which at this point Aibileen is acting like the person Celia is asking for and she recommends Minny. Celia has never had a maid, and doesn’t know how to act around them. When they meet, Celia is afraid that her house is too much for Minny to clean. Minny thinks that it's absurd