Sweet Gum Slough
Can you remember a time where something joyful happened to you? Most of us tend to cherish the joyful moments because it was once a time of happiness where nothing else mattered but that. In this essay, a little girl's journey filled with joy during the 1930's in Florida will be shared. On her journey she will meet new people, mention her father’s journey, and face difficult situations.
To begin with, in the book titled Sweet Gum Slough, a little girl shares with us 6 years of her life experience while residing in Florida during the 1930's. She shares memories of her in school with her friends and of her and her father, she mentions a lot about those that she came across while living in Florida. Lizzie was one of her friends…show more content… Their strange little truck stopped at our front gate, and one of the children opened the gate so the truck could drive through" (Karssiens 22). Her vivid memory allows readers to paint a picture with extravagant details.
Moreover, the little girl talks highly of her father, she did too for her mother but she had an unbreakable bond with her father and it shows throughout the book. She shared some of her father's journey as well, Karssiens writes “when he was twenty years old, my father joined the navy and world war I. He was assigned to a mighty battleship and letters from him to his parents were frothy with youth and excitement" (75). Readers are able to take away a lot of information about the little girl’s journey, because she talks about her family and shares information of them that she would like us to know.
She mentions her father's athletic side and shares with us that her father was unable to proceed with his dream sport, due to his mother's request. "Throughout his teenage years, my father played a variety of sports, but the one he wanted mot was denied him. His mother put her foot down and refused to let him box. (Karssiens…show more content… Their concern for us came from their hearts, but it was prompted by mother’s many contributions to the sickbeds of Sweetgum Slough” (Karssiens 69). Adding on, the whole family have taken ill as well, they came down with flu and the little girl was not feeling her usual self. Karssiens writes “My very bones ached, and I had strange deliria with gnarled dreams and wild visions. I was hot and cold at once, and the sheets hurt my skin as I tossed and struggled in bed beside my feverish sister.
The little girl had to face her fears when she would told that she had to move to the city for school. She did not want to go at all because she did not want to leave behind the life she grew use to. “I howled and protest when they told me that I would change schools. I screamed and said that I wouldn’t go to the city school. I would not leave my country friends and the little one-roomed schoolhouse that I viewed as a sort of ongoing womb” (Karssiens 104). At that time the little was about ten years old and life as she knew it took a change just like
