Lil Tree

Chapter1. Little Tree, orphaned at five, comes to live with his grandfather who is half Cherokee and half white and his grandmother who is Cherokee. The new family is poor. They are mountain people of the 1930s.

Chapter2 Granpa and Little Tree go on a turkey hunt. Along the way Granpa teaches Little Tree his philosophy

of hunting and conservation.

Chapter3 Little Tree discusses the books that Granma reads to him and Granpa. They get them from the library with the librarian's help. We learn of Granpa's feelings for "the law" and his great disappointment with George Washington.

Chapter4 Granpa and Little Tree go on a fox hunt.

Chapter6 The narrator tells of the history of the Cherokee people as told to him by his grandparents. Included in the story is the story of the Trail of Tears. Little Tree also learns of his great-grandfather the the close lipped relationship Granpa had with him.

Chapter7The narrator describes the work life with Granpa and the farm. Family friend Pine Billy comes for a visit.

Chapter9 This chapter provides the details of how Granpa makes most of his money from the corn crop. After the interesting and detailed account of the business, Little Tree is put in the situation where he must protect the family business by outrunning lawmen with the help of the dogs. He is successful and the grandparents are proud of him.

Chapter11 Granpa tell Little Tree there are words he can skip like the lascivious sounding "abhor." Little Tree describes a man who can "jump teeth." Little Tree meets the daughter of a sharecropper and the life of the sharecropper is described. Little Tree brings the girl a gift with unhappy results. Granpa teaches Little Tree about what poverty will do to a human being and what some of the causes of poverty are.

Chapter 12Little Tree describes the natural world around the cabin and what it means to the family. He lists objects in Nature and what they mean. While fishing, Little Tree encounters a snake and Granpa saves him from it but almost dies. Granma comes to help.

Chapter13Granpa tells a story of when he was nine years old two years after the Civil War. The tale depicts three people trying to plow a field. One is a wounded Confederate soldier. Two Union soldiers help them. After getting the farm going, government men, called Regulators, who set the taxes on farms for the purpose of forcing farmers off their land come by and mark the farm for repossession. The Regulators murder three of the men from the farm and blame it on an Indian uprising.

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