Cold Sassy

The novel takes place in a small town by the name of "Cold Sassy" in Georgia. There is a obvious separation between the people of the town and the "mill people" also called, blue-collar workers who labor in the cotton mill right at the outer parts of town for wages so low that they are difficult to live on. There are also some tenant farmers along with the older land owners who have struggled to make a living off of their farms since the end of the Civil War. The novel is based mostly around the merchant families who run the town. The setting takes you to a simpler time of dusty railroad tracks, porch swings and the corner stores of that time.Revere- regard with feelings of deep respect and admiration -- sometimes with a mixture of wonder and awe or fear. Prodigal- recklessly wasteful. Heresy- any opinions or actions counter to proper belief or what is proper. Contrite- feeling sorrow or regret for a fault or of. Desecrate- violate the sacred character of something. Foreshadowing: the use of hints or clues that suggest what will happen later in the work of literature. In Chapter 46, Will's hope that something bad will happen to Hosie and he said it happens to Rucker instead gives us a clue at the illness that strikes Rucker and his death not long after.