Part one of term paper
The harsh life of a six year-old growing up in the early 1900’s is shown in this memoir . In the early years of the century, a young boy recalls his life as his family followed the rail line in hopes of finding fertile land. Percy Wollaston wrote this book, for the sake of benefiting his grandchildren. He wanted them to learn the hardship ...

Part two of term paper
... this novel to his son, he stated that this "was nothing much, probably not worth the trouble of reading." Percy was born in Madison, south Dakota in 1904. In 1909, his dad sold all their belongings and they traveled to the "land of promise." This memoir as said in the foreword, written by Jonathan Raban is "unforced, unsentimental, often dryly funny, it has the ring of experience itself insisting of making itself manifest in writing. It tells the story of what now must seem a tragic episode i ...