"Shall Not Perish", 101 (Event)
Text:
Page Number:
101
Order within Page:
6
First 8-10 words of event:
and one morning Mother stood at the field fence
Page Event Ends:
102
Era:
Midcentury (1941-)
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Narrative Status:
Narrated
Date:
Wednesday, April 15, 1942 to Thursday, April 30, 1942
Notes:
The letter (or the narrator's summary of it) is notably Faulknerian: "A ship was. Now it is not. Your son was one of them" (102).
Summary:
(Boy) Grier mentions the Griers before him as stewards of the land who "had done right by it" after he learns of the telegram announcing his brother's death (102).
Chronological Order:
28.00
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Keywords:
Farming, Ancestors, Legacies
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