A Land More Kind Than Home

Submitted By denise1mark
Words: 432
Pages: 2

Professor
ENG 113-107
February 13, 2013
A Land More Kind than Home In this story the author Wiley Cash does a great job keeping me focused on the story. The author uses great detail throughout chapters one through fifteen. He describes in detail everything in the story from the background to foresights that different characters have. This book kept my attention throughout the chapters by putting me right there in the small town of Marshall. Some of the main points that we talked about in class was what made you feel like you were there. The small church that was dark and very hot with the broke down air conditioner. You could feel the heat blowing down your back when Cash was describing the hot air blowing down the shirt of one of the boys who was trying to see what was going on in the church through a small crack in the rotting wood around the air conditioner. Cash used this as a reference point throughout the story. Another way Cash told his story was through different characters, this allowed the reader to get a view of how people in the story saw what was going on around them in this small town. One person in this story might think Chambliss is the best thing that happened to Marshall and on the other hand some of the people looking in and seeing what’s really going on have a different opinion.
This story took Jess on a roller coaster ride with all the ups and downs that happened to him in just a few days. He had to take care of his older brother who was mute