This classic was part of our Sonlight Curriculum Core C that we read as a family. I ended up not reading as much as I was hoping to on my own this year and so I'm using this as my Classic by a Woman Author in the Back to the Classics Challenge I participated in this year.
We were all entranced in this book from the start. This book allows you to enter the world of rural Florida in the early 1900s when Anglo-Saxons started to move south into Florida to settle and farm the land. The focus is on two families that end up in a feud because of different views of how to live.
The Boyer family buys a vacant farm and begins to work the land. The Slater family has been living in the area for awhile and is lax in how they care for their property and animals. The women seek to find a way to live in peace, but the men are so different in their way of doing things that the families go back and forth with getting along and being at war. In the midst of this feud, we get a view of what life was like during this time. They show us a view of farming, raising cattle and other animals, making treats and other food in the kitchen and what school and church was like. You also get to hear how they talk, which is kind of fun to read.
There are so many lessons in this book. Learning to work hard, loving your neighbor as yourself, loving those who hate you, obedience, respect for others and their property as well as working together as a community. I'm sure there are more, but those are the ones that stood out to us as we read.
This is a good fun read and is great to learn about living and working together. I absolutely recommend this read.
4 Stars for this classic
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