Chapter 7

Prompt 1

      During this chapter, it primarily focuses on the family's struggles throughout the winter time. It was bitter cold for them, getting as low as -20 degrees at night. With their house not being very nice, everyone in it had to wear all of their warm clothes, along with blankets on their beds, and still ended up freezing cold. 

      In the winter they still had to work, and they didn't want to pay to use transportation, so all of them would walk to where they work, walking through tall drifts, and be freezing cold before they even got to work. "They unwrapped him [Stanislovas], and a man began vigorously rubbing his ears; and as they were frozen stuff, it only took two or three rubs to break them short off. As a result, little Stanislovas conceived a terror of the cold that was almost a mania" (Sinclair 66-67). This shows just a little bit of the suffering they went through. And not to mention old man Antanas got so sick from being in the cold and working that he eventually died.

      For their family, the winter was very brutal on all of them. They all had to work even harder and longer because they found out their was interest they had to pay on the house that they bought. The Americans once again took advantage of them!