Themes The key themes of this novel are family break downs and how the effect the individuals and the relation ships in the group. But as the book progresses he grows up and matures very quickly and by the end of the book he is much older than twelve, this event was sort of a right of passage for David, when he becomes a man. David: at the start of the book David is a normal young boy, he is old enough to know that having the Hayden name makes him known amongst the community but it doesn’t really worry him. It is also hinted in the book that he is secretly in love with Wes's wife. He is a true western man with true western values, but likes whisky a little bit to much. Len McCurly: was Wes's deputy and lived next door to him and before that was Julian's deputy. But he sexually abuses young Indian women and was suspected of Marie little soldiers murder. He has a wife but they never had any children. Frank: frank is Wes's only brother, he is a doctor and a decorated war hero and was highly regarded in the community. He also sees frank as his only son and wishes that Wes would be more like his brother.
Key characters Julian: is David's grandfather and Wes’s father, he was the owner of a cattle ranch and then was the town sheriff before passing it onto his son, he was a controlling man who needed power which is why he became the sheriff. The time is 1948 which is just after the second world war and it is a time when everybody in the community is just trying to settle down and get on with life because there where many men in the town that fought in the war. The area has a history of cowboys and Indians and there is still racism in the community. The land around there is very harsh it is hard to farm and the weather is tuff. Setting The book is set in the town of Bentrock which is in northwest Montana very close to the Canadian border. Epilogue: franks crimes are suppressed by the family and then David's family move away from bentrock to the city. Frank is finally over come by the whole situation and kills himself.
Julian is not satisfied and sends a few men that work for him around to the house to brake him out but it is unsuccessful. Julian comes around to the house and is extremely angry and demands frank to be released now but Wes refuses. Part three: Wes arrests frank for sexual assault and instead of taking him to the station he locks him up in the basement. But a few days later Marie little solider is murdered and frank is the prime suspect. Wes confronts his grandfather about it and is not fazed by it at all and try to get Wes to stop the investigation. Part two: Wes begins to investigate the allegations and the evidence starts to build against frank. After the visit the first allegations of sexual abuse surface about frank. Then Marie little soldier gets sick and needs to see a doctor but when Gail suggests she sees uncle frank she does not want to see him, but she is convinced to see him anyway. Plot Prolog: David as an adult looking back on the events of 1948 and how he remembers 3 important people his father his mother and Marie little soldier Part one: we are introduced to the town and the post war way of life of the people in the town of Bentrock. Montana 1948 Plot Setting Key characters Themes Key quotes
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