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 favourite baseball player in the day, his father.

The murder is represented by the storm clouds. They hang over the peaceful farmhouse and the baseball field of innocence, making everything dark and gloomy. It also shows the secrets in which the holy story is based around. The little boy knows the secret behind the murder, and who committed it, but is threatened not to tell. A young woman ignites forbidden passions within the little boy, and he must keep that a secret. The secrets build up on the young boy until they come out in an explosive releasing of emotions. Just like storm clouds build up until they relieve themselves on the world below.

Those were the three main topics of the book and the drawing, the quiet peaceful nature of the scenery, the playfulness of the baseball diamond, and the darkness of the clouds above, all crashing together in an explosive story.