Summary Of Out Of This Furnace By Thomas Bell

Out of This Furnace by Thomas Bell is the story of a Slovak family's immigration to America. The book tells the story of karcha family that relocate to america after facing hardship in their mother country. The story tells about three generations of karcha family, from the first immigrant in the family, George Kracha to the third generation represented by Dobie Dobrejcak. The novel goes on to tell the hardships faced by immigrants in america, bad working conditions, low wages. The book starts from george karcha moving to america and then working in steel mill for low wages after which he later than opens a business and loses everything. The story then continues to the second generation or karcha’s, George daughter marries mike who also works in steel mill. Mike is killed in steel mill accident and she faces a really hard time since …show more content…
The factor that led George to leave his family behind in hungarian village was to escape the poverty and make his life more better in the wonderful place heard from stories the america. “it may be that he hoped he was likewise leaving behind the endless poverty and oppression which were the birthrights of a Slovak peasant in Franz Josef's Empire” ( Bell, 3). During the voyage to america, George meets Zuska, being interested in the women he throws her a birthday party and loses most of his money for his trip to pennsylvania which cost him to face the hardship to walk all the way from new york to pennsylvania. George was left with only fifty cents and that weren’t enough for a train ticket, he travels by day asking directions and taking any rides that are offered. He runs out of food and has to beg strangers for food and spend nights under open sky or haystacks for any place he can find. When he arrives at white haven he asks for direction and follows the railroad tracks, walking till he reaches the place where is brother in law and sister