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A 4 page review of “Out of This Furnace” by Thomas Bell. No additional sources cited.
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as the Irish or the Jews or the Dutch or any number of popular cultures. There are not many books that deal with minority immigrants and this is just what
Thomas Bell does in examining fictionally, the history of a Slovak family in the United States in Braddock, Pennsylvania in his work titled "Out of This Furnace." While not incredibly
numerous, in the town of Braddock they clearly made a mark in that they were often the brunt of negative attitudes on the part of many other people in the
region, people who were not Slovakians. The following paper reviews Bells book. Out of This Furnace Bell, though Slovakian himself, does
not offer a book that is evidently a genealogical look at his own family, but rather works off the environment he grew up in to illustrate the conditions of a
fictional Slovakian family in Pennsylvania. Most of the story takes place in Braddock, Pennsylvania and the story begins in the later part of the 19th century: "George Kracha came to
America in the fall of 1881, by way of Budapest and Bremen. He left behind him in a Hungarian village a young wife, a sister and a widowed mother; it
may be that he hoped he was likewise leaving behind the endless poverty and oppression which were the birthrights of a Slovak peasant in Franz Josefs empire" (Bell 3).
In the character of George we quickly see a man who is perhaps intelligent but also one prone to the allure of women
and of drink. This is show in the first chapter of the novel when he is on the ship to America and is consumed with desire for a young married
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