Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
A 3 page overview of Erskine Caldwell’s novel Tobacco Road. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Page Count:
3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JA7_RAtobd.rtf
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
trash in the 30s. They are individuals who are incredibly impoverished, and incredibly backwards one may say. The following paper offers an overview of the novel. Tobacco Road
by Erskine Caldwell The story presented by Caldwell deals with the Lester family. One critic notes, "Tobacco Road, set in a fictionalized version of Caldwells home town, lays bare the
story of the Lesters, the poorest, whitest, trashiest, horniest family in rural Georgia. Jeeter, the Lester family patriarch in Tobacco Road, is a beaten-down sharecropper who can no longer get
credit to buy the supplies he needs to farm" (Garner). One could perhaps argue that there are some sympathetic looks at the family and their struggle in the book. For
example, the father of the Lester family, Jeeter, states, "I worked all my life for Captain John, Lov. I worked harder than any four of his niggers in the field;
then the first thing I knowed he came down here one morning and says he cant be letting me get no more rations and snuff at the store" (Caldwell 15-16).
This was the situation many farmers faced in the 30s. But, at the same time, just prior to this seeming cry for help Jeeter stated, "My children all blame me
because God sees fit to make me poverty-ridden" (Caldwell 15) In this one sees that Jeeter is a man who takes no responsibility and believes God just made him impoverished.
He gets angry when family members do not go out and steal food if they are hungry, and he seems more than eager to dismiss any kind of sexual abuse,
even encouraging such activities. One such situation comes when his daughter Pearl has apparently refused to sleep with her husband. Pearl is only 13 and rather than try to
...