Spring Victory (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jesse Stuart
- First Published: 1942
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: 1918
- Setting: Rural Kentucky
- Principal Characters: The boy, Sal, Mick
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Love or romance, Rural or country life, Poverty or poor people, Sick persons, Survivalism, Starvation
- Locales: Kentucky
The Story
During the dead of winter in 1918, a rural farm family faces starvation. After a summer in which the crops failed, the father is sick in bed with a protracted case of the flu, and the four children are all very young, by modern standards, to be of much help. It is left to the narrator's mother to find a path through the dilemma.
Her solution is to resume a craft she learned as a girl, basket weaving, and to enlist the older children in the enterprise. The unnamed narrator, who is ten years old, supplies the raw materials for his mother. Through bitter cold he...
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