Giants In The Earth Analysis

The novel of Giants in the Earth gives us knowledge of how life was like for an immigrant to start all over again in an unfamiliar, unknown, and unexplored area. It also talks about the hardships and consequences that the unknown settlers dealt with on the prairie land. It takes place in the unsettled Dakota Territory in the 1870s. Some topics in the novel are the mental state of each person after living in the total desolation of the wilderness, along with the manual labor of survival. Per Hansa, his wife Beret, their two sons Ole and Store-Hans, and their daughter Anna Marie also known as And-Ongen, have traveled across the Great Plains and undertook the journey in a caravan with several other Norwegian immigrant families. One of Per Hansa’s wagons broke down, and he insisted that the other families continue ahead of him while he gets his wagon repaired. He thought that he would be able to catch up to the other is a couple days. Per Hansa seems like a natural pioneer. He shows great courage and a man of action during the troubled times. Now that the others went on ahead …show more content…
Then she sees him chopping up and burning the stakes. Beret realizes that the stakes belong to the Irish and that Per Hansa had shoes them away. Then he proceeds to tell everyone what he had found and that he had destroyed the stakes. Everyone proceeded to praise him for what he had done, except for Beret. She tells him that he is committing a crime. I also thought it very interesting that the only one in the group that thought what he did was wrong was Beret. Once again I think she is right in believing that he is committing a crime. Definitely wouldn’t want that done to me. It seems that he doesn’t like others cultures but kind to his own. This is evident when he felt sorry for another Norwegian family and gave them some of his potatoes for free on his way to town to sell his