Shauna's Glory Field: The Long Walk Home-Shauna

Monday, February 25, 2008

The Long Walk Home-Shauna

In the movie, The Long Walk Home starring Sissy Spacek and Whoppi Goldburg, I felt scared when I found Odessi(Whoppi) got on a bus then the white boys started fun of her. Then when the bus stop she get off the bus and then the bus driver said 'Get off from the bus' to the white boys so they get off the bus then they followed her then they again beat her, later her younger brother came to protact her and he got punched and kicked from the boys because of his skin color. But they didn't say anything. I found bleeding on his face. I don't understand those guys they just beat them and I felt really bad and angry.

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Summary of "The Glory Field" in 1735

The Glory Field
1753 p. 3-8

Muhummad is captured and brought into a slave ship on the west coast of Africa, Sierra Leone. He is in the bottom of a slave ship for thirty six days before setting sail for the United States. He suffers on the slave ship because he is shackled to the ship. He is afraid because he does not know what his future holds. He asks himself some questions. Where are my parents? How are they? Are they dead? Will I survive? Will all the people on the ship die? Where am I going? What will become of me? He wants to be free again.

Journal entry -Muhammad

Muhammad's last name was Bilal. Muhammad came from Sierra Leone on the West cost of Africa. Muhammad was on the slave ship waiting to depart to the USA. Muhammad was on the slave ship waiting to depart to the USA. I think being on a slave ship would be terrible because "There were men from different peoples chained together".(pg.6) And I think Muhammad was afraid. Muhammad was on the slave ship because he was captured in order to be sold into slavery. He felt lonely because he miss his family. Muhammad was exhausted after fighting a seen-ba (beats) and he was lying down and the slave catchers got him. I think it was unfear because he was too exhausted. The living conditions on the slave ship were crowded ,dark, lonely, very dirty ,very smelly, human excrement and vomit littered the ship. It makes me sick because it's disgusting. It was diseased, and people would lay dying and when they died they would be thrown overboard. It's creepy because people died. The slaves were naked and chained together and lying on bare wooden boards for days on end. It makes me angry because the slaves are not animal. They were given gruel to eat once a day and water twice a day when brought on deck they were made to jump around and danced. Maybe the slaves were very hungry because they had just to eat once a day and water twice a day. Muhammad felt lonely, unheard, scared, and he was wondering about his family and about himself and the others on the ship with him. It makes me feel sad because I would feel that way, too. Muhammad's thoughts kept going back to the day he was captured.
Slave Ship

Summary of "The Glory Field" in 1864

The Glory Field
1864 p. 11-23
The Lewis slaves were made to work on the fields even though is was Sunday. It was a year ago since they worked the fields on a Sunday. may Joshua Lewis, Moses Lewis' brother had run away because he had heard that his wife, Neela might be sold, and Lem Lewis, Mose's son, was described by Grandma Dolly as being like her grandfather Muhummad and “did things differently”(p.15), and Grandma Dolly also says, “If you born with a taste for freedom in your mouth, you got to satisfy it.” Lem had escaped and run away too.
There were patrollers out looking for Joshua and Lem. Everybody was wondering what happened to them. Master Lewis, his family, his overseer Mister Joe Haynes and his workers, and Moses Lewis, his family and the other slaves all wondered if they would be caught.While they were working in the fields, Moses sees Lem off at a distance because he starts singing a spiritual referring to the lost lambs, “The young lambs must find the way...” and eventually the slaves see what Moses had seen, Lem being dragged behind a horse.
Saran, Lem's mother, grandma Dolly, Moses and the other slaves back in their quarters, rely on their faith and call on God to keep Lem safe.Miss Julia, Master Lewis' daughter comes to get Lizzy with the excuse that the kitchen is dirty, in order to manipulate Lizzy into telling her what she knows about Lem and Joshua. She acts so high and mighty when she says to Lizzy that it's thanks to her that Lem is still alive, “They should hang him from a fruit tree...and they would have, too, if it hadn't been for me...I told them not to hang him because I knew you were sweet on him.”(p.23)

The Glory Field
1864
p. 24-34
Miss Julia and Lizzy drink tea and Miss Julia sweet talks Lizzy even telling her that one day she is going to buy Lizzy from her father and set her free so that they can walk hand and hand in pretty dresses in Johnson City.
Lizzy is told by Master Lewis to return to the quarters, and she listens for a minute behind the door to see if she can hear anything about Joshua and Lem. When she arrives to the quarters everyone asks her questions about what she heard. She tells them that Lem is tied to a tree out in the woods and tomorrow they are going to talk to the slave trader Mister Oakes and see if he can sell him to Foster.
Moses doesn't trust Miss Julia and he has no qualms in telling Lizzy that Miss Julia is just sweet talking her, and Grandma Dolly says, “And don't think you overheard nothing they don't want you to know. Anything you know is what they want you to know so they can use you.”(p.30)
Everybody in the slave quarters is wondering if Joshua is going to come back for Lem. Everybody knows that Joshua knows what tree Lem is tied to only they don't know if he is going to come back for him. Moses tells a story of two boys and how they couldn't take the abuse from the master anymore and they end up being hung for fighting with a white man. He tells this story to remind them that Lem and Joshua are not safe.
We find out how Lizzy came to live with Moses Lewis and his family. Lizzy's mother died because of all the hard work in the rice plantations, therefore, Lizzy came to live with Moses and his family. Lizzy lying in bed remembers a coachman from Savannah, Georgia and how fine he looked in his fine clothes and how he talked about how the white people treat the blacks in Savannah, and how he doesn't understand why the blacks aren't just happy with their situation and should accept it instead of fighting it. He says, “And be like them folks that call themselves free?...they ain't doing no kind of good...they were better off being slaves. Least they had something to eat and knew how to behave themselves.”(p.33) Moses did not agree with the coachman from Savannah, and he shows his repulsion by spitting on the ground and saying “...a poor excuse for a man...”(p.33)
Lizzy keeps pondering about Lem and turning her thoughts over and over again about him, and asks herself if Lem had a freedom dream and that's why he left. Lizzy wants to go and say bye to Lem and “say something good to him so he wouldn't feel so all alone,”(p.34)

The Glory Field
1864
p. 35-44
Lizzy was lying down in the cabin when she decides to go out to see Lem and bring him water. She is surprised by her Grandma Dolly on the porch. Lizzy listens to her Grandma's advice that Grandma Dolly's father told her. “He used to say they keep us in between the whip and the North Star. One hand holds out freedom and the other holds out a whip. Long as we sitting there turning our heads which way and that...If they can't turn your head, they can't turn you at all”(p.37). The whites offer the blacks the North Star in one hand, but have the whip in the other. The North Star representing freedom and the whip representing the south and slavery.
Lizzy goes off to see Lem and brings a clay jug of water with her to give some water to Lem. She is hesitant about going and at times stops on the way wondering if she should have brought Lem something to eat, if he is going to ask her to cut him loose, how will she find Lem, and if they find her there with him if she would be whipped? She remembers seeing Bill being whipped just because Old Master Lewis thought that Bill was being disrespectful to young Master Lewis. All that Bill had done really was to drop a bolt of fabric by mistake in the mud. A small thing made into a bigger problem for no reason really.
Lizzy finds Lem tied to a tree and his face is swollen and there was blood on his cheek. She decides to clean Lem and offer him some water. While Lem was drinking water all of a sudden Lizzy was whipped by Mister Joe Haynes! He whipped her three times! Once across her back, once on her ankles, and once across her hip even tearing her thin dress. Mister Joe Haynes accuses Lizzy of trying to free Lem. Mister Joe Haynes justifies himself with this excuse to whip Lizzy.
While Mister Joe Haynes was occupied by Lem and Lizzy, and he whipped Lizzy one more time, he did not see Joshua come through the bushes. “Joshua's body crashed into the overseer's bent frame and sent him backwards.”(p.44) Lem urges Lizzy to grab the rifle that “...still lay across the bush.”(p.44)

The Glory Field
1864
p. 45-51
Joshua gets Mister Joe Haynes pinned to the ground, and Mister Joe Haynes begs for his life. “...But don't kill me. I got a wife and family.”(p.46) Lizzy begs Joshua not to shoot Mister Joe Haynes too. Joshua says that Lizzy has to run away with them otherwise Master Lewis will whip, and probably kill her. Lizzy can't believe that she has to go and won't be able to see Grandma Dolly or the rest of the family again. Joshua decides that she can run back to the quarters to say good-bye, but that she has to hurry. “If you get back in a short while, I won't kill him...If you don't, I'm going to have to break his neck...”(47)
Lizzy runs back to the quarters and tells everyone what happened. Lizzy wished that this would had never happened. Saran takes Lizzy's face in her hands and says, “When folks take your freedom, and the only way for you to get it is to risk dying for it, then dying comes when it wants to. You go on, you'll be all right. You young. You got plenty to live for...”(50) Saran tells Lizzy that Miss Julia came to get Lizzy to take her back to the big house, but Saran told Miss Julia that Lizzy was in the field because she was sick. Saran urges Lizzy to change her dress because Miss Julia would be back and if Miss Julia saw her dress she would know that something was wrong. Every one agrees that Lizzy has to get back to Joshua and Lem to run away.
Miss Julia comes to the door and wants Lizzy to come to the big house, but Lizzy pretends that she is sick and Miss Julia says, "Well you do look a sight"(p.51).

The Glory Field
1864
p. 52-58
Miss Julia wants to bring Lizzy to the big house, but Lizzy convinces Miss Julia that she will come in the morning. Everybody at Lizzy's house are frantic because they know that Lizzy has to get going to meet Lem and Joshua. Lizzy says her goodbyes to everyone and Saran says, “If you get caught, act like you ain't right in the head”(p. ). Saran tells Lizzy not to turn back.
Lizzy meets up with Joshua and Lem away from the tree. As they head out Lizzy keeps asking," where are we going?"(p54) Of course Joshua doesn't really know where they are going and so is his frustration Joshua just says , “Just going.”((p.54) Lizzy wonders if Lem and Joshua killed Mister Joe Haynes and that's why they were not talking much. Joshua wants to take them to an abandoned smoke house, but when they get close they realize that they are not going to make it to the house so Lem and Lizzy hide up in some trees. Lizzy was feeling exhilarated at the thought of herself being free, and she contemplates these thoughts as she watches some white men out with children playing in the fields.
Joshua leaves them and Lizzy and Lem sleep in the trees. Lizzy realizes that something profound has happened to her...”It was what had happened to her. She was free. It was a scary free, and it was a hungry free and a tired free, but it was free.”(p.58)

The Glory Field
1864
p.59-70
Lizzy woke up and all of a sudden remembered where she was and she felt scared. She couldn't see Lem, and she heard sounds in the distance that sounded like booms. She climbs down the tree and Lem calls out to her. They decide that the sounds must be coming from the fighting of the civil war, and that they have to keep moving because Mister Joe Haynes and the dogs are probably after them.
They hear the dogs drawing closer and closer! They see some lights and head to the lights running, and walking when they get too tired. They are afraid because the riders on horses point in their direction, and Lizzy and Lem are not sure if they are pointing at them, but then they realize that they are pointing at the fires. The riders call off the dogs and the dogs circle one more time and they ride away. Lem and Lizzy are relieved and head towards the fires when someone comes up behind them and they can't believe their eyes! The soldier is black! “You're black!” she said. Glad you noticed it,” the soldier grinned. I had just about forgot it.”(p65)
They find out about the Yankee army and how there are many black soldiers and how the army is going to start a black regiment. And they find that Joshua is at the camp too!! The soldiers feed Lem and Lizzy and put them to work.
Lizzy has an important decision to make: follow some people who are trying to escape North, or follow the regiment and help out...Lizzy “...ran as fast as she could, her feet slapping against the hard road. When she got around the bend, the men were still in sight, tall and proud. She followed them, never looking back.”(p.70)

Journal entry -Lizzy

The Civil war was taking place in the United States in 1864. "Lizzy's" story takes place in the live Oaks plantation in 1864. Lizzy is a young girl who was a slave and she was taken to the live Oaks plantation to live with the Lewis slave family because her mother died. Maybe she was sad because her mom died. Master Lewis is the owner of the plantation and the slaves. Mister Joe Haynes is the boss. Lizzy come to live with the Lewis because her mother died. So she was sad because her mom died. Joshua and Lem ran away from the plantation. Joshua ran away because he wants to find out where his wife would be sold to. I think he should to know where is his wife sold to because that would be good. Lem ran away because he wants get freedom. Probably because freedom is good. Mister Joe Haynes and patrollers are looking for Lem and Joshua. But I hope to make them can‘t catch　them because I want give them a freedom. Moses and the slaves start singing in the field because they saw Lem was coming home. The song is singing because Lem was coming home. Mister Joe Haynes and patrollers caught Lem and they tied him to the tree because they wanted Joshua to come back and they could catch him. I think they are too bad because Joshua is not animal he is also same person. Miss Julia called on Lizzy because to find out information about Lem and Joshua. Lizzy decide to say 'Good Bye' to Lem because she can't see him again. Probably I will to do that because she can't see him again. Joshua comes back for Lem. Lizzy get whipped from bringing Lem water. Mister Jeo haynes is very bad because he whipped at Lizzy. Lizzy has to run away because she grabbed the gun from Mister Jeo Haynes and she was going to shoot him. Lizzy, Lem and Joshua end up at the yankees camp.

Tea Bags
Lizzy and Ms. Julia had tea, about their dreams in Johnson city talking with Lizzy.

Summary of "The Glory Field" in 1900

The Glory Field
April 1900
p. 78-89
The Lewis family gathers at the African burial ground on their plot of land at the Live Oaks Plantation. Moses says, “Lord, bless this precious earth.” After blessing the cemetery they gather for a family picnic.
The whole family gathers at the picnic together. Goldie and Elijah like each other and they tease each other at the picnic. “I might have to marry you quicker than I planned,” said Elijah.(p80) We find out that Lem died in the war and the Lewis family was not allowed to bury him in the grave yard, so they buried him in the Glory Field instead. A storm was coming their way and it looked to be a big one.
Sister Clinton, who does laundry for the white folks, and who is a busy body, came by and was talking to Grandma Saran about a little boy who Grandma Saran takes care of and whose name is David. Sister Clinton said that she saw little David with Foster and they were supposed to go fishing. Grandma Saran plays a bit dumb with Sister Clinton, but when Sister Clinton leaves, Grandma Saran tells Elijah she knew who Sister Clinton was talking about and says that Foster is “...always half juiced up.”(p.83). Foster is always hanging around little David Turner's father because Turner has a lot of money and Foster can “...borrow some drink money once in a while (p84).
The Lewis family is enjoying the picnic when old man Turner shows up looking for little David. Old man Turner and Grandma Saran make small talk and old man Turner asks if Grandma Saran hasn't seen Foster. Old man Turner doesn't ask about David, and Grandma Saran didn't want to ask about him even though she suspected that it was David that old man Foster was looking for. Finally Grandma Saran “...called out to him. 'Mr. Hamlin!...Where's David?' The balding white man turned slowly, lifted his hands upward, and exhaled deeply. 'Aunt Saran, I don't know where they are' (p.89).

The Glory Field
1900
p.90-107
Old man Turner leaves the Lewis place on his covered surrey, and Grandpa Moses says, “Serves him right.”(p.90) The family talks to Lizzy about being in the north and how the white folks treated the blacks up north. “Most of them were really nice” (p.91). Grandma Saran asks, “What are we going to do about little David?” (p.92) Grandpa Moses puts in his two cents worth and says that Foster is out on that little island near the key. And Grandpa Moses says he goes out there because he is a lazy man and he can follow the tide out and follow the tide in.
Elijah asks Grandma Saran if she wants him to go out to the island to find little David. And Grandma Saran says, “It don't hurt to make believe you were awake when you went to church this morning” (p.93). Elijah's parents were going to head back to Savannah, and by the time Elijah would be back they would be gone.
It took about one hour for Elijah and Abby to get into town. They were going to see if they could help find little David. The storm was brewing and there was “...brief smatterings of rain” (94). Elijah has an idea and he asks Abby if he wants to go along with the idea. Abby says he has an idea too, but Elijah says that if it has anything to do with ragtime music, then Abby should forget about it.
Elijah tells Abby his idea of telling Mr. Turner that he will find little David if he lends the money for the taxes to Grandpa Moses and Grandma Saran. Abby thinks Elijah is “...too hot-blooded. You say something like that to Mr. Turner and he's liable to get mad and start some trouble”(p.96) But Elijah wants to help because he “...saw something in Grandma Saran's eyes...I looked at Grandpa Moses” (p.97). Elijah is not sure if he can stand up to old man Turner, but he is going to try.
They arrives at the beach and a group of men were there. Sheriff Glover and the men were talking to old man Turner, and when Hamlin Turner saw them he invited Elijah and Abby over. Old man Turner and all the men discuss the risks of going out in the storm to look for little David and Foster., and he eventually offers 25 dollars to the man who can rescue little David. One by one the men drop out and when only Sheriff Glover, Mr. Turner and two white men, Abby and Elijah were left, Elijah finally offers himself and Abby to rescue little David, but for thirty-five dollars!!
Sheriff Glover tries to intimidate Elijah and Abby with his gun, but Elijah does not back down. Frank Petty insults Elijah with the N word and Elijah starts to walk away, but stops when he sees “the concern in the white man's eyes” (p.102) Mr. Turner finally offers twenty dollars, but eventually offers him the thirty-five dollars.
Even though Sheriff Glover doesn't know where Foster and little David are, he goes out on the boat with Elijah and Abby too. He wants a part of the rescue money! Elijah and Abby go to get the Pele Queen and bring it around and Sheriff Glover met the boat. The three are off in the Pele Queen to find little David.

The Glory Field
1900
p. 108-113
Elijah, Abby and Sheriff Glover go out into the storm on the boat, and Sheriff Glover takes hold of the tiller while Elijah and Abby row because it was no use to use the little sail in a storm like that. The two boys struggle as they try to make their way to Key Island. The water is extremely rough and they need to navigate around one edge of Gray Rock. Sheriff Glover realizes that what they are doing is very dangerous and he threatens the boys with a gun to turn around. “Sheriff Glover unsnapped the leather flap on his holster, pulled the long-barrel revolver from its nesting place, and pointed it at Abby. “I said turn back, boy!” (p.111) The boys stare Sheriff Glover down and Sheriff Glover puts his gun away. They reach Key Island and Abby stays with the boat and Sheriff Glover and Elijah start searching the Island for little David and Foster.

The Glory Field
1900
p. 114-125
When Elijah and Sheriff Glover start searching the island, Elijah goes one way and Sheriff Glover goes the other way. The wind is blowing so hard that it is hard for Elijah to hear anything other than the wind. Elijah calls out to David many times and he almost gives up hope of finding him when he hears a faint cry for help, “Help!” The cry was weak, but it was clear. Elijah looked to his left and saw the boy's thin arm swinging over his head”(p.116).
Elijah calls Sheriff Glover over and they realize that Foster is holding onto David's leg for dear life. Foster was hurt and Sheriff Glover had to point a gun to Foster's head for him to let him go of little David. Elijah gets ready to take little David to the boat, and Sheriff Glover threatens Elijah with death if he leaves with him. Sheriff Glover sets Foster's broken leg and finally carries him back to the boat.
The storm was howling and they had a rough time rowing back to the mainland. They finally make it and the Lewis family is waiting along with Old man Turner. Old man Turner and Sheriff Glover walk away with David and leaves Elijah wondering if he is going to see any of the money. : “...Elijah saw Sheriff Glover walking with Hamlin Turner. He was carrying David"(p,122).
In the local paper, The Gazette, the credit for the rescue was given to Sheriff Glover and there was no mention of it to Elijah and Abby. “We don't never get no credit.” Grandpa Moses was carving on a piece of driftwood”(p.123).

Journal entry -Elijah

Elijah is Richard Lewis and Lizzy's son. Elijah lives on the Oak plantation. Elijah live with his grandparents because his parents moved. Elijah's parents live in Savanah Jeorgia. Name of the girl who Elijah likes is Goldie. Grandpa Moses and Grandma Saran have problem it was they can not pay their taxes. Elijah have a plan for to help Grandpa Moses and Grandma Saran was to go rescue little David and get the reward. Elijah goes with Abby and Sheriff Glover to Key Island. This is because for rescue David, and get reward the money. Elijah rescue because of David and Mr. Faster. Elijah receive the money from Old Man Tuner for the rescue. Elijah run away because he doesn't want to get whipped from Frank Petty. He run away to Chicago. Elijah has grown up and left his childhood behind because he did a grown up thing by earning reward money to help his grandparents to pay taxes.

Boat

Summary of "The Glory Field" in 1930

The Glory Field
1930 Chicago
p. 141-154
Luvenia Lewis lives in Chicago, and she does not want to move back to Curry South Carolina with her parents Elijah, Goldie and hChicago and I'm a Chicago girl”(p.143). Luvenia “felt for a long time , that there were two distinct kind of coloured people in Chicago...country type people...the other kind of coloured people, the kind that usually referred to themselves as 'Negroes' and spoke as proper as white people, and sometimes even more proper(p.153).

The Glory Field
1930 Chicago
p.155-164
Luvenia went to church with Miss Etta. Reverend Bradley preaches about the Prodigal son. Luvenia is in the choir and she sings a solo at church. Luvenia decides to go the Deets' house to “clean it real good and then talk to [Mrs. Deets] about what the bank said”(p.164).

The Glory Field
1930 Chicago
p. 165-171
When Luvenia arrives back to the Deets' house on Sunday she talks to Mrs. about Mr. Deets signing the guarantee so that she can go to college. Mrs. Deets says, “And why would you be interested in college?...It doesn't work...You are a maid. Reaching beyond yourself will just be a disappointment...I never went to college... [I] found my place in life...here I am(p.167). Luvenia decides that she is not going to be able to talk to Mrs, Deets about so she decides that she will talk to Florenz. Luvenia contemplates how and what she will say to Florenz.
Luvenia's “dreams were tortures”(p.168). She had one where a car kept running over Precious, Mrs. Deet's dog no matter how she tried to protect Precious. In the other dteam, she was at a rent party where there were more men than women just like the real rent party that she had been to at Miss Etta's. In the dream the women just seemed to be getting bigger and bigger and dancing and singing and snapping their fingers to the rythm and showing off to the men. And she was in the middle of the dancers, tryng to keep up with the other women and then trying to get off of the dance floor and away from the rent party. When she finally woke up she “sat up and, taking the bible Mrs. Deets had left in her room, read from Leviticus”(p.171).

The Glory Field
1930 Chicago
p.172-182
Luvenia knew that Florenz never got up before ten, she would often have her friend, Katie Hornung come over and they would have a lunch together in the parlor and talk. Luvenia was busy doing choress to get them done because Florenz had invited her to drink tea with them. Luvenia is invited to sit with Florenz and Katie in the parlor and drink tea. Luvenia like Florenz “despite the older girl's annoying explanations of why 'the coloreds,' were inferior to whites...there was a real vitality to her, a kind of bubbly air that Luvenia had always liked”(p.174).
Luvenia talks to Florenz and Katie about a book by Dr. Du Bois and articles by Mr. Locke on the new negro. “ 'A Negro who can do anything that he wants to do,' Luvenia said.(p.175). Florenz gets annoyed with all the talk about Negros and says, “ 'You can not make people socially and politically equal by noisy rallies or those radical labor unions.' “(p.176). Katie seems to understand more what Luvenia is trying to ezplain about the possibilities of the new Negro.
Luvenia asks Florenz if she would ask her father to sign the guarantee, and Florenz says that she will talk to her father even though “ '...Daddy does whatever Daddy choses to do.' “(p.177). But Florenz has other plans that “ 'She thinks [is ] a crisis' “(p.178). Florenz wants to use her father's car and convinces Luvenia to go along with the plan. She tells Luvenia that she is going to tell her father that Luvenia is sick and that she needs to be taken across town to the colored doctor's. And that they tried to get the car service to take her, but because she is colored and they wouldn't take her. Luvenia is worried that she will get in trouble, but Florenz assures her that she won't. “Luvenia wasn't at all sure about the adventure, but the idea of it was exciting.”(p.181).
Florenz phones her father and ends up telling him !! “ 'I think she might even be in the family
way...if you don't let me take her there, I'll have to put her out.' “(p.181-182). Luvenia is shocked and confused when she hears Florenz say that. Luvenia swallowed hard. She wasn't “in the family way” and didn't want anyone to think she was. Florenz gets her way and says, “ 'Ladies shall we go?' “(p.182).

The Glory Field
1930 Chicago
p. 183-188
Luvenia did not feel right about the lies that Florenz told her father and Luvenia felt physically ill. “it was what so many whites expected of Negoes: that one day they would show up and announce that they were pregnant...”(p183). And this was why Luvenia wanted to go to college. Luvenia enjoyed the drive and the looks that they got from different people. The young women were enjoying themselves and the Florenz and Katie “pretended to be driving around their plantaions”(p.185).
Florenz wants her father to give her the car or even buy her a brand new car. Florenz spots some young men that her and Katie know and they drive over to the young men. Florenz gets Luvenia to leave them with the offer of money so that she and Katie can be left alone with the young men. Luvenia walked all the way home.
“Luvenia was not angry with Florenz or Katie, but with herself. “She was almost on the verge of tears”(p.187). “They just weren't her friends, and they did not know about her life or about the life of any Negro”(p.187). When Luvenia arrived home there was a telegram waiting for her that read, “YOUR SERIVCES WILL NO LONGER BE REQUIRED –JOHN DEETS.”(p.188).

The Glory Field
1930 Chicago
p. 189-200
What devasted Luvenia most was what Mr. Deets would think of her. Miss Etta seemed indifferent to the situation and said, “ 'Girl, a black woman losing a job ain't no big thing!'”(p.191). Miss Etta was more concerned with the death of an aquaintance, Sister Stovell, and the casket is cracking and the servic eis tonight. Luvenia is still upset and “...somehow stopped the urge to scream”(p.192).
Luvenia and Miss Etta take care of the spilt casket by wrapping it with a sheet and a shawl. The Deacon at the church tells Luvenia that she is “ 'decent young person...that's a rare thing these days...' “(p.195).
Luvenia still has hope of getting her old job back and back home Miss Etta asks her boyfriend, Mr Harrison if Luvenina can use the phone in the basement. When she finally talks to Mr. Deets, he is not pleased that Luvenia was part of Florenz' scheme and tells Luvenia that she can not have her job back, but that he would write a letter of reference for her. Luvenia has the courage to say that she doesn't want to go to Curry, and that she is going to try and make it on her own in Chicago. Miss Etta sees the determination in her face and says, “Girl, just look at your face! You look like you're fixing to fight or something!”(p.199).
Miss Etta decides to throw a rent party for Luvenia to help her get set up with her own hair dressing business. Luvenia writes a letter to her parents in Curry assuring them that she will make them proud. “I promise you that I will never, never do anything that will make you ashamed of me”9p.200).

The Glory Field
1930 Chicago
p. 201-208
Luvenia is having a hard time finding a job that suits her and Katie even tries to find her a position, but Luvenia turns it down. Luvenia tells Katie, “Miss Katie, I think I want to start my own business.”(p.201-202). Katie is in admiration of Luvenia and she hugs Luvenia.
Miss Etta throws Luvenia a rent party, and invites the neighbourhood. The party was a hit and Luvenia enjoyed herself more that she had expected. She thought of Florenz and Katie and contemplated how they would never understand it. “The party...was something that you had to come to at the end of the day of bone-crushing work, of frustration, of despair...that for a few hours the party...would be wonderful”(p.206).
The rent party made some money for Luvenia to start her own hair business. The next morning a man tipped his hat to Luvenia and said, “You got a nice step to start off the new day...Look like you ready!” (p.208) “I am,” Luvenia called back to him. “I am”(p.208).

er brother Richard. Luvenia is doing her Godmother Miss Etta's hair and talks about her reasons for staying in Chicago. The whole time Elijah was in Chicago he had been working and “every spare dollar went to Curry, holding the Lewis family together even when white females in the area failed. Elijah was their bank...their emergency fund”(p.150). It was Elijah's dream to return to the Glory Field.
Luvenia wants Miss Etta to help her to write a letter to her father to convince him to let her stay in Chicago. Luvenia works in a house as a live-in maid for the family Deets. The Deets family has a daughter, Florenz Deets who is about Luvenia's age and when “ 'I clean her room I look at her books. They're not that hard. Once I read a chapter in her history book and at the end there were these questions and I answered every one of them.' ”(p.147). Luvenia has dreams of going to University to get an education. Luvenia needs money to go to University. She went to the bank to get a loan to go to school, but the bank manager told her she needed a letter of guarantee that she will have a job until she pays back all of the money. “I have to make at least eleven dollars a week too”(p.144). Luvenia wants to ask Mr. Deets if he will sign the guarantee.
Luvenia's brother Richard was content to return to Curry South Carolina, but Luvenia says, “Daddy's got to realize that there are city folk and then there's country folk. I was raised in

Summary of "The GLory Field" in 1964 (pg.211~222)

It was the day of the All City basketball Tournament at Curry High School. Tommy Lewis plays basketball for Curry High School and he is the star player of the team. " In the locker room...Tommy's hand was shaken a hundred times. He felt as good as he had ever felt" (p.213). Curry won it's first All City Tournament. Mr. Chase, a scout from "State" University invites Tommy and Tommy's girlfriend, Mandy, over for refreshments and Mr. Chase talks to Tommy about a scholarship. "States looking for some good people" (p.219). Tommy was thrilled with the idea of missing the last year of high school to go straight to college, but Tommy was uneasy about going to an all white university. "More important, though, was that it would be a challenge in which he wouldn't be at all sure who was on his team" (p.222).

Tommy play basketball.

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Journal entry- Tommy

Tommy and his parents are talking about college. This is because his mom is worried. "I still don't see how you could go to college if you don't finish high school, remember this child, you are not white and you cannot be cutting corners like white folks do"(pg. 223). So his mother doesn't want Tommy going to white college. But dad is ok to go white college. Later that night, Skeeter came to Tommy's house because he got bit by a rattle snake he needs somebody who can carry him to hospital because his parents are away. "No,just get me to hospital." Skeeter said.(pg.227) Then they went hospital. And then they are talking about college again.

A rattlesnake which was bit Skeeter.

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Response The Glory Field

I read a book The GLory Field by Wlater Dean Myers. It's about the Lewis Family. First od all, I like this book. My favourite part was Lizzy's story because she showed she was a strong woman. For example, her mothe died but she didm't show weakness. So I felt she was a strong woman.

Secondly, I like ELijah's story, to. This is because he was a strong man, to. For example, he rescued little David and he talked with Mister Joe Haynes about his grandparents's taxes.

Third, I like TOmmy's story because I was glad of his college. Which means I was glad because he can go to a white college. But the end of his story was didn't go to white college. Then I felt bad. And his white friend named Skeeter, he did a great job. For example, he went march with black people. Even he got punches.

Finally, I was glad to read this book because I can kow about the Lewis family. But importantly, I should be strong and brave than the other people!

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