Marxism

This book was called A Painted House and was written by John Grisham. The visual part of this essay was a drawing of a house with large storm clouds hanging over top. The book was about a seven-year-old boy living on a quiet cotton farm in 1950’s Arkansas. The drawing summarizes the three main topics in the book, peacefulness, innocence and murder.

The drawing portrays peacefulness by showing an old farmhouse in the middle of nowhere. When most people think of peacefulness they think of being in the middle of nowhere, with no hassles, and nothing to do. It is also the middle of the night, and everything seems peaceful during the night, especially on an old farmhouse in the middle of nowhere. There is a reason for the house shown in the drawing to be a farmhouse. It is a farmhouse because the book spends a great deal of time describing the amount of work that goes into life on the farm.

The innocence is being shown by the baseball diamond, it represents the little boys dreams of being a professional baseball player and moving far away from the farm. Late at night the little boy and his family would sit around a radio on their front porch listening to the St. Louis Cardinals play baseball. It was what they enjoyed most after a long day of cotton picking on the farm. It also shows the little boy’s heroes, as the little boy dreams of his favourite baseball player at night, and plays with his