THE FOUR WINDS
BY
KRISTIN HANNAH
Author:KRISTIN HANNAH
Genre:fiction ,historical fiction,literacy fiction
Pages: 397
SUMMARY
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah, Elsa Wolcott is a woman trying to raise two children on farm in the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl following the Great Depression. She watches as the lands around her crack in their perpetually parched state and the hopelessness threatens to breaks the spirit of those around her.
As the situation worsens, Elsa is forced to make a decision to stay and fight or leave for the uncertain and unfamiliar lands in the West. In this tale, Kristin has written a survival story about resilience, love, family, courage and the American Dream.
In The Four Winds, Hannah has penned another survival story, this time about a family in the Great Plains struggling through the difficulties of poverty and famine during the Dust Bowl in the years after the Great Depression
While the characters in The Four Winds go through hardships as well, there’s more of a sense of pioneering spirit and resilience that I found uplifting and engaging to read about. It’s a book about determination, love for one’s family and for oneself, the fight to survive and the American Dream.
I also thought it was charming that at the heart of the story is a mother-daughter relationship. The two protagonists of the book, Elsa and Loreda, are both fully drawn and compelling characters. They have a complex relationship that develops and changes as the story progresses in ways that will challenge you to think about your own relationships.
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The Four Winds is also a true historical fiction novel, bringing in bits and pieces of historical facts from the time periods it covers. Most of the things that come up are facts that you’d probably heard about in history class, but having it placed into the context of a vivid and expansive story really brought to life a time period that I’ve never really spent much time thinking about.