Yonnondio: From the Thirties Study Guide

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The Holbrooks, a poor working family, live in a mining town. Jim works in the mine. Every morning, his six-year-old daughter Mazie (along with the rest of the town) wakes up to the sound of the mine whistle. During the morning this is a call for all the miners to get up and go to work. If it rings during the day, it means that one of the workers has been killed.

One morning, Anna Holbrook, Mazie's mother, worries about the new fire boss, whose carelessness may create a massive explosion and kill many of the miners. Mazie, outside, talks to herself how the mine is the "bowels of the earth" and the coal makes people black inside.

The narrative is interrupted by the story of Andy Kvaternick, a young mine worker, new on the job. The narrator…

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Posted By gil h #62856 at Aug 21, 2008 5:19 PM

symbolism of the whistle

yonnondio is a great book. what is the meaning of the whistle in the beginning?

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Posted By james c #27442 at Oct 11, 2006 3:49 AM

suggestion of further research

hooray--so the people who provide us with the synopsis of this story are from Harvard---guess what they all have in common--money. And the story deals with class issues--not coming from the middle to upper class--in fact, so far I've seen zero examples from analysis which would qualify as an apt reading of this story.

Find another outlet. These people have no idea, let alone educational background (english undegrad?), to educate you on this story

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