These Happy Golden Years is one of the books in a series written by Laura Ingalls Wilder about her life. This book is near the end of her series and takes place in 1880. Laura is fifteen years old and lives on the prairie. Her series brings to life what the day to day life of pioneers. This is a really great series because all of her writing is very vivid and you can imagine everything she is going through. I enjoy this book, because you feel all of her emotions and you feel like you living with her.
In the beginning of the book, Laura is driving to her first job as a school teacher. She has a lot of trouble at her job, because she is very small and some of the students are even older than she is! At her job Laura becomes homesick and every week she can’t wait to go home. Finally, she finds a way to work with all her …show more content…
On page twenty–nine and forty-six, Laura use the weather in order to bring emotion across to the reader. In the first quote, the day is going by slowly for Laura because the weather is making her feel anxious and every second seems like an hour. “The shanty trembled in the wind that every moment howled louder.” The weather has been the same all day long. If I were Laura I would feel very small and helpless in the weather. In the second quote, Laura feels homesick. When I read the second quote, I could feel how the outside being gray could make the day drag on and feel like it would never end. “The weather was sullen. Dull clouds lay low and flat above the white prairie.” The last page that I thought Laura really made a good connection was on page two hundred and five. In this quote, Almanzo unhitches Barnum and he begins to run away and Laura is on the buggie attached to Barnum and now she has to stop him and bring him back! “Barnum was racing on the open prairie beyond the church.” I could really feel the panic she must have felt and how her heart must have been
In the beginning of the book, Laura is driving to her first job as a school teacher. She has a lot of trouble at her job, because she is very small and some of the students are even older than she is! At her job Laura becomes homesick and every week she can’t wait to go home. Finally, she finds a way to work with all her …show more content…
On page twenty–nine and forty-six, Laura use the weather in order to bring emotion across to the reader. In the first quote, the day is going by slowly for Laura because the weather is making her feel anxious and every second seems like an hour. “The shanty trembled in the wind that every moment howled louder.” The weather has been the same all day long. If I were Laura I would feel very small and helpless in the weather. In the second quote, Laura feels homesick. When I read the second quote, I could feel how the outside being gray could make the day drag on and feel like it would never end. “The weather was sullen. Dull clouds lay low and flat above the white prairie.” The last page that I thought Laura really made a good connection was on page two hundred and five. In this quote, Almanzo unhitches Barnum and he begins to run away and Laura is on the buggie attached to Barnum and now she has to stop him and bring him back! “Barnum was racing on the open prairie beyond the church.” I could really feel the panic she must have felt and how her heart must have been