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However, I think that there was more than some immediate personal influence that inspired Montana 1948. Larry Watson was born in 1947 and raised in North Dakota according to the Goodreads website. Because he ruined his relationship with his own family members, the entire family gets torn apart, just like how eventually, all the canning jars get smashed. This tranquility makes for easy work for Wesley Hayden, who is the Mercer County sheriff. His life seems not particularly affected, other than that his family had to move from Montana. And it is a painful realization.

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It's hard for me to review the book without keeping in the back of my mind that 16 year-olds will start reading it next week. For a start I used the online Biography of Larry Watson See Below to delve into his personal life. Montana 1948 captured my interest from the start. Sometimes just tell the story. Later that night, Gail goes in to check on Marie one more time. It was a summer in which he learned that truth is not always what we believe and that power can be abused, but those are not the hardest lessons he learned. Set in Bentrock, Montana, in 1948, it is a powerful exploration of conflict, relationships and power dynamics in the world around us from the perspective of one boy growing up through a scandalous time period.

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The story is written as though David Hayden is recounting back on his past, to where he lived in a small town named Bentrock, in Mercer County, Montana. Now, I do read quite a lot of books twice, but it really has to resonate with me if I turn to it a third time. The story was told by a 12 years old kid named David. A lovely work, not to be missed. I can guarantee that people will be very interested and like this book. It explains for him why his father, the Sheriff does not deal with the stereotypical problems of the rural West, such as wild cowboys and drunken Native Americans and so on.

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W In my little life full of coincidences, I would never have believed it if someone told me I would unintentionally read two books in one month with plots based upon the rape of Native American women by white men and both set in the northern plains. Overall I enjoyed the book because even though the language was very easy to understand it still makes the reader think and react to the story. Only when I began reading did I discover that it was a coming of age story. For they are not described by the narrator as much as men, hence showing favoritism of men over women by the author. My favorite novels tend to be coming of age stories, so it was no surprise to me that I liked this book.

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My father kneels on the kitchen floor, begging my mother to help him. Where Gail is concerned with justice and follows abstract ideals Wesley is concerned with procedure, with law. The Indians were part of their everyday life. The realities of the external world will find him even in his isolation. The strengths and weaknesses are very good description and I did not see any weaknesses. I like because I think I have many similar situations like the narrator, David, has.

MONTANA 1948 by Larry Watson

I wasn't as crazy about the plot. Wesley gets on the phone immediately. He writes about a mystery that makes you want to read more and more as the book progresses. Wes is a noble man, full of wisdom, and lives daily with the knowledge that he was unable to fight in the war that made his brother, Frank, a war hero to the small community. She is feverish, delirious, and coughing so hard I am afraid she will die. It's a subtle nov Montana 1948 is a beautiful lyrical little novel of around 160 pages.

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David must comes to terms with the fact that his father is capable of such moral shortcoming. All of these reasons is why I liked and recommend this book to 14-year-old boys. It is essentially a Bildungsroman, a tale of change, in which the narrator's moral, philosophical, psychological and spiritual growth are also examined under the microscope. It would be interesting to find out if Larry Watson has written another novel as good as this one. Its an western tragedy where no one wins in the end. Although portrayed in a way more appropriate for a younger audience, we see Jem witness the realities of becoming a young adult.

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According to google, Watson was born in 1949 and He grew up in North Dakota and graduated from Bismarck State College. It was about the mistreatment of Native Americans. Having done so I was fascinated by such a poetic, provocative and beautiful little novel. I will definitely be adding the rest of his work to my overlong wishlist. I felt that the book is really realistic because it truly presented Montana 1948 is written by Larry Watson, and it is a fiction book. Well, how about a literary page-turner set in the West? Question: How does prejudice play into the story? I recognized my own passion for faraway places away from civilization, from noise and pollution and even from people, for a while: Wildness meant, to me, getting out of town and into the country.