Giants In The Earth
Beginning of paper
O.E. Rölvaag’s thesis in the novel is well hidden throughout the text of the novel, but his purpose is very clear. The purpose of the book is to give the reader a full experience of how life was like for an immigrant to start all over again in an unknown, unexplored habitat. It also furnis ....
Middle of paper
.... mental state of
the pioneer when living in total desolation. For the male pioneers,
living on the prairie was almost a dream. This was the place one
could hunt and build. This was the place one could live off of his
own hands. For example, Per Hans is basically happy with the prairie from the beginning to the end of the book. He knows that someday it will become a large town or city that he helped start or that in the future it will be the same clear and peaceful prairie forever. He ....
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Word count: 660
Page count: 3 (approximately 250 words per page)
