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| Plot Summary of Tobacco Road |
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"This book is represented as the realists' literary explanation of deep poverty in the hard-scrabble, depression-era South. The characters are lost, confused and are what we would call "moral idiots." While I don't think it is an accurate picture, as a whole, of the era or people, it is a compelling look at some small segments of the time in the South."
Kelly Whiting, Resident Scholar
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"Jeeter Lester is slowly dying of starvation in his decaying farmstead on the Tobacco Road in Georgia, USA. He is worn down by poverty and spends his days dreaming of planting crops even though he has no money to buy the seeds with. Tobacco Road details Jeeter's decline in this world as his family, alienated from normal human emotion, strive to survive crippling poverty in the depressed Deep South."
meg stevens, Resident Scholar
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| Review Analysis of Tobacco Road |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- depressed
Time/era of story
- 1930's-1950's
Poverty, surviving
Yes
Kind of living:
- farm poverty
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- unemployed
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric/Mental
Yes
Eccentric:
- a bit retarded
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
- mean, arrogant
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
- physically sick
Main Adversary
Identity:
- none
- society
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 4 (a fair amount)
United States
Yes
The US:
- Deep South
Forest?
Yes
Farm/Ranch?
Yes
Farm/Ranch:
- farm
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- dumb Rednecks, like Gomer Pyle
- hostile, like Gomer Pyle on steroids
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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