Children of Strikers (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Fred Chappell
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The late twentieth century
- Setting: A mill village in the South
- Principal Characters: A twelve-year-old girl, A younger boy
- Genres: Social realism, Short fiction
- Subjects: Children, South or Southerners, Poverty or poor people, Violence, Dolls or dollhouses, Strikes or lockouts, Mills or millwork, Human anatomy, Feet
- Locales: South (U.S.)
The Story
On a gray day, two poor children trudge along a riverbank path that leads away from their homes in Fiberville, a cluster of bungalows named for the paper mill where the adults work. The girl occasionally picks up pieces of trash from the ground and examines them. When the boy sees her put something in her pocket, he insists on seeing it. She refuses, however, and when he dashes at her, she slaps him. They walk on.
Eventually, the girl gives her companion a hint. She has found a baby's foot, she says. Excited, the boy begins to speculate about how the foot was...
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