Analysis Of Where The Lilies Bloom By Vera Cleaver

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Where the Lilies Bloom by: Vera and Bill Cleaver Some of examples of historically accurate technology in the book where the lilies bloom are cars, radios, and tractors. The religion in the book was christian and the culture in the book was wildcrafting in the book the Luther family do wildcrafting because they live on the smokey mountains where conditions there are hard so the second eldest daughter Mary Call does wildcrafting to get herbs for people that are sick such as Roy Luther her father. The location in the book was in the Smokey Mountains which is in North Carolina the location was appropriate to the time because North Carolina was actually in the time period of the story which was in nineteen-sixties. Some accurate events in the book

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