Silver Hair Golden Years Character Analysis

In the chapter “Silver Hair, Golden Years” in the book Somebody Told Me by Rick Bragg, there are elder characters with some wonderful stories. In the articles: “All She Has, $150,000, Is Going to a University”; “Band Plays On for Class of ‘39”; “Woman Clings to Her Paradise”; “Little Women Look Back on a Lost World”; and “Country Club Meets Enemy: Country Music and Pigs”, all of the characters went through things that people today have never experienced. All of the characters grew up in hard times, but many prospered because of their hardships. There are characters in the chapter that go through hard economic times. In the article “All She Has, $150,000, Is Going to a University”, Oseola McCarty had to quit school in the sixth grade to begin working. Working was all Oseola ever knew, but she saw her work as a blessing. All of the characters in the article, “Band Plays On for Class of 39’’, grew up during the Great Depression. Life was tough for all of the characters during this time, but they all got by together. David Miller told of this when he said, “We were just poor white Americans, and we latched together” (Bragg, 113). Each character faced financial problems when they were young and …show more content…
Nita Krebs in the article “Little Women Look Back on a Lost World” knew this struggle all too well. Nita was a tiny person that got treated different from others because of her size. She may have been criticized for her size for years, but she had a lot of potential and went on to play two roles in the classic movie The Wizard of Oz. A pig farmer named Paul Thompson in the article “Country Club Meets Enemy: Country Music and Pigs”, did not fit in well with his fancy golf course environment. Mr. Thompson told of this when he said, “just one more case of rich developers running over the little guy” (Bragg, 124). While the characters had trouble fitting in with others, some also had issues with being