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A Painted House by John Grisham is an ever lasting collaboration of events. This story is told trough the eyes of a seven year old farm boy named Luke. This was not a historical novel but a thriller. It is a story with historical backing. This novel is full of life lessons and the reader grows with Luke. A Painted House is a novel easily recommended to anyone.
A Painted House is full of infinite meaning and symbolism. The title is self is symbolic of the poor life the family has. The novel starts off with Luke summarizing the beginning of the crop season. The novel depicts the struggles of the American farm families. The Chandlers’ economic status holds truth to the idea that the depression came early to Arkansas and left late. The novel starts in 1952 at the start of the picking season. The Chandlers are cotton farmers that rent there farm lands and wish to break even with the crop this year. The Chandlers along with most other farm families have a debt that carries over year to year. Apart from there economic drama they have to hire field hands to help harvest the crops. They use “hill people” and Mexicans. The workers end up adding more drama to Luke’s once simple life. Luke is witness to two murders. The reader feels forced to keep in the secrets with Luke and forced to grow up and smell the murder. The novel has very scandalous event for its time period. Ricky, Luke’s uncle, fathers a child with Libby their poor neighborhood. The Spruill’s, the Chandler’s hill people, son Hank ends up killing a guy and Luke saw everything. Cowboy, the Chandler’s Mexican field workers, kills Hank and runs away with seventeen year old Tally. Poor Luke was witness to that murder and Cowboy threatened him. The crop ends up failing the family. Luke takes on the job of painting the house. The family moves to Chicago. Finally the mother gets what she has always wanted.
John Grisham’s A Painted House depicts the farmers life in a new light. The novel is written in a simple manner, because the characters are simple people. This novel is not the usual southern tale of racism and ignorant people. The novel portrays an almost classy southern lifestyle. The reader is witness to the growth in Luke’s character. At the end he is still a young boy but he is now harder on the inside. The time in which this novel is told was after World War II. This was a time when the US was stable, yet on this poor farm in Arkansas they are about to loss it all. The novel show the how things were on the other side. Grisham has a little of everything in this book. His lead character Luke tells the story in such a grown way that it isn’t until you notice his innocence that the reader remembers that he is only a child of seven. Grisham keeps the reader wishing along with mom that someday the Chandler family well no longer live on the farm, but go to a more modern home. The reader easily falls in love with Luke and his jokester ways. Grisham does the difficult job of bringing true life to each character.
This novel is in no means limited to historians. Grisham made this book enjoyable for many audiences. Luke is in love with baseball, but better yet he is in love with the Cardinals. The novel is splattered with mini love stories. The novel does hold truth to an over all goal. The American Dream is the back drop to the whole novel. Grisham pulls the reader in with hoping and wanting the Chandlers to progress in life. The reader grows attached to the family and wants them to complete their goals. The American Dream is seen differently for each character. Grisham doesn’t use the words the “American Dream” anywhere, but the reader can clearly see each characters strive to complete their dream. The themes of love, sports, and dreams are all found in this novel. Grisham was intelligent in his writings. The fact that the novel is a thriller in its self appeals to the new generation of readers. It is a difficult job to find a reader that isn’t interested in any part of this novel.
A Painted House by John Grisham is a sequence of exciting events. The fact that the story is told through the eyes of a child is misleading. The reader expects the book to be immature and finds the opposite. This novel was a true thriller. It is a story with historical backing. The lessons learned in this novel teach humility. The reader gets laugh and tears from this one of a kind novel. A Painted House is a novel easily recommended to anyone for its universal appeal.

Baby Boomers!! Sir. Brown...

Q: how do you feel knowing you're a baby boomer?
A: I like the idea that my generation was the product of a prosperous age in American history.

Q: Whats your birthday?
A: June 25, 1954

Q: How older are you?
A: I'm the young age of 54 years old? {{he was smiling :) }}

Q: Where did you live growing up?
A: My dad worked in news paper. We moved around a lot when i was growing up. We mostly lived up north.

Q: What do you remember about the 1950's?
A: I was just a boy in the 50's but i remember my family was well off. My mom did little odd jobs and thank god my dad always had a job. I was the oldest of 3 and we got just about everything we needed and most the things we wanted.

Q: What do you remember about the 1960's?
A: I remember growing up and hearing lost of talk about Cuba and JFK. The biggest thing I remember was all the talk about mixing whites and blacks.

Q: How was "color" seen in your house?
A: It was seen a good thing in my house. Now i wouldn't have had no black girlfriends or anything but we had lots of friends that weren't white.

Q: What do you remember about the 1970's?
A: The 70's was the age of the hippie. My sister cryed when the bettles broke up. I was a total anti-war guy. I went to many protest about the vietnam war.

Q: Could you add to the hippie statement?
A: Sure, I did lots of drugs but my moma didn't know. Music was everything. I had just finished high school and i didn't want to go to college. So i kinda became a hippie to extend my good years as much as i could..

Q: Ok last one, If you could go back to any time what time would you go back to?
A: I would love to go back to my hippie days.. :)

x-mas song nazis

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town


You better watch out

You better not cry

Better not pout I'm telling you why

Santa Claus is coming to town



He's making a list

And checking it twice;

Gonna find out Who's naughty and nice

Santa Claus is coming to town



He sees you when you're sleeping

He knows when you're awake

He knows if you've been bad or good

So be good for goodness sake!

O! You better watch out!

You better not cry

Better not pout

I'm telling you why

Santa Claus is coming to town

Santa Claus is coming to town


He sees you when you're sleeping

knows when you're awake

He knows if you've been bad or good

So be good for goodness sake!

O! You better watch out!

You better not cry

Better not pout

I'm telling you why

Santa Claus is coming to town

Santa Claus is coming to town




Nazis Are Coming To Town

You better watch out

You better not cry

Better not pout

I'm telling you why

German Nazis are coming to town

There making a list

And checking it twice;

Gonna find out Who's a Jew and not

German Nazis are coming to town

they watch you when you're sleeping

they knows when you're awake

Adolf knows if you've a Jew or not

So don’t be Jewish for goodness sake!

O! You better watch out!

You better not cry

Better not pout

I'm telling you why

German Nazis are coming to town

German Nazis are coming to town

They are marching threw Europe

Its all chamberlains’ fault He knew Adolf was a evil dictator

So he should of jailed him for goodness sake!

O! You better watch out!

You better not cry

Better not pout

I'm telling you why

German Nazis are coming to town

German Nazis are coming to town

A Legacy of Distrust

I'm a soviet citizen, the cold war is due to the American need to control. in 1917 the real Battle of communism VS capitalism began. the USSR and US had a super power rivalry. the US sought the containment of communism. the US just had to be in control and run the planet their way.. the US has always had that need to control but they have never had such a great opponent as the one that the USSR is...with the US's past of manifest destiny i am not in shock they would take it upon themselves to free the world of communism.. wake up US not everyone is in love with you and wants your ego inflated ideas to run their countries.

the rivalries were in the following areas

• military
• propaganda {{the US has always been good at this}}
• espionage
• weapon development
• industrial advances
• competitive technological developments
• the SPACE RACE

we both did our part to bring the world on to our sides..

THE US

• western Europe
• middle east

THE USSR

• eastern Europe
• Latin America
• southeast Asia

the whole cold war is due in great part to the US's need to be in charge.. you took our want of communism as a personal attack. when well you stop being such a egocentric country!!!

anti-German propaganda

money was need at the time to fund the war. so to get the money ads scared people into buying bonds. the ad depicts the enemy solider hurting a girl. it is meant to make you want to buy bonds for the war so that all the bad stuff doesn't happen anymore.

this ad was to boost women's' want to work. they placed a strong looking women to prove a point on just how Strong women are. "we can do it!" was the ideology that women could do the job of men. during war times women had to do male roles in the work force

the present day ad is one of the 2008 elections. the light and the hands are symbols. light is change and hope and the hands in the o shape stand for Obama. together the two show that Obama well bring change!!