Summary Of Charles Dunsford's Life

“Oh no,” whispered mother with her handed across her mouth. “What are we going to do?”

In the book, Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns, Will Tweedy’s mother, Mama, exhibits extraordinary sensitivity when Grandpa Rucker Blakeslee, her father, marries a young woman who works for him just weeks after his wife dies. When Grandpa comes home and announces his marriage to Miss Love Simpson Mama comes undone. She sees the marriage as a disgrace to her mother’s memory, rightfully so. Mama and her younger sister Loma dramatically cry together about the

Early in their lives, two young sisters, Ruth and Lucille, experience loss and abandonment from the men in the family. Their grandfather had died in a train derailment into Lake Fingerbone before they were born, and their father leaves them while they are very young. Then their mother commits suicide, but not before dropping the girls off on their grandmother’s porch. Moreover, then, “she sailed in Bernice’s Ford from the top of a cliff named Whiskey Rock into the blackest depth of the lake (23), again into Lake Fingerbone. After only a few months their grandmother dies leaving the girls to the remainder of the family, a collection of eccentric females. The girls deal with all of this by relying on each other. Soon, their great Aunt’s,

Mother tended to blame others for Mugg’s awful actions. In paragraph three, the narrator says that Muggs had bitten a Congressman who his father called to see on business. The narrator's mother never liked the Congressman, she said that “Muggs could read him like a book;” also mother said that the congressman's horoscope sign could not be trusted. In paragraph four, the author explains that Muggs was irascible in the mornings. Then goes on to tell a story of when Muggs chewed up the morning paper just has his brother Roy was coming down stairs. Homever the narrator told the end of the sorry saying “Muggs bit Roy viciously in the leg.” In paragraph seven, the narrators says that the police were called because of Muggs biting Mrs. Rufus Sturtevant.

The author’s melancholic, yet, optimistic tone arouses mix feelings from his readers. Bragg clouts his readers’ perception of his father with harrowing, however, coveted recollections of the past. In the author’s comparative recount of the Father’s demeanor, he paints an unsettling, yet a hopeful life of his father:

Levitt and Dunbar follow the story of the Lane family with the story of two kids with unfortunate names: Temptress and Amcher. A judge, W. Dennis Duggan, had seen both kids in his court and had taken note of their unusual names. “Amcher, had been named for the first thing his parents saw

William was over at his great-aunt Tootie’s for the summer, because his mother was furious at him for pushing her new husband’s car in a lake. On the inside, William, was “blinded by disbelief and sorrow…. I’m her son. But she made me leave. She sent me away,” (page 206).

“Charles! It has been a while brother.” Aya’s father made the remark to the man, returning the hug.

It is this air of isolation that brings him together with his far-elder cousin, Miss Sook. “…neither of us had an ordinary outlook or background, and so it was inevitable, in our separate loneliness, that we should come to share a friendship apart” (243). This friendship with a woman fifty years his senior livens Buddy’s world as they spend all their time together, working in the garden, going fishing, and cooking up gigantic breakfasts. “…she was a child herself…she understood children, and understood me absolutely” (242). Buddy relates to her as an equal, creating a much needed friend that serves as an anchor in his childhood. As the primary figure in Buddy’s life, Miss Sook is able to teach him lessons about envy, vengeance, and empathy. She knows that Odd bullies Buddy, so she invites him to join their Thanksgiving dinner. Buddy is outraged and feels betrayed by his friend’s welcoming of an enemy. Immediately he views Odd in contempt as he watches him eye up one of his relatives while grabbing all the attention with his talented singing voice. “Odd was good, he could sing for sure, and the jealousy charging through me had enough power to electrocute a murderer.” (259). Overcome by this jealousy, Buddy immediately finds a way to find vengeance on Odd by accusing him of stealing a brooch from Miss Sook, which he was in fact guilty of. In the process of

Her mother painfully leaned forward as the carriage rolled to a stop again, and pressed her lips to Abigail's forehead, and pulled her into a brief hug that was stronger than her mother's arms had been for a month or more. Abigail clutched her, refusing to cry, refusing to make her mother''s last memory of her one of weakness. "I will. I love you ... Mother." Then she was drawn away by Brigs'

The father’s character begins to develop with the boy’s memory of an outing to a nightclub to see the jazz legend, Thelonius Monk. This is the first sign of the father’s

Sure enough, all his mother does is nod. “A mother’s love for her child should be unconditional,” she says. “And the others?”

“Never that momma.” He says kissing her cheeks. Momma E turns to me, smiling to me as she came closer hugging me like I was one of her own.

A small family of four, living in the Tory town of Redding. Life was great Mr. and Mrs. Meeker owned a small tavern that supplies their town with food, rum, and supplies. Their son Timmy helped around the tavern and did chores, because his older brother Sam was off at college. Everyone in Redding was close and knew the Meeker family, they all admired how they had raised Sam and Timmy. Every year after college was over, Sam would come home and visit, except one.

For the tenth anniversary of her husband's death, Mrs. Alving is preparing the grand opening of an orphanage named after him to serve the nearby town. When Pastor Manders accuses her of failing to provide Oswald with enough moral guidance, he reminds Mrs. Alving that she has left her husband during her first year of marriage, but that he turned out all right after she returned to him. This prompts Mrs. Alving to tell the truth that she had kept hidden. Mrs Alving's deceased husband Captain Alving was a well-respected upper class citizen. To the public eye he was a good supportive husband. However, behind the façade he was a promiscuous, lazy dissolute man. As the story unfolds, the audience becomes aware of Captain Alving's infidelity with the maid. To add to the controversy, a child is also produced,