The Importance Of Good Life In Poachers

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A good life can be described as having a good environment, strong personal values, healthy relationships, and meaningful purpose in life. When things are not as good as one might want them to be, it is very hard to keep on living. Some are not able to handle the hardship brought upon them, so they end their life. Others hang on tight to anything they can. The Gate brothers’ lives were far from good. In the novella Poachers, Tom Franklin described their live as harsh and savage. They became orphans at an early age and survived mostly from poaching. With no one to teach them right from wrong, they became dangerous. Perhaps the only people in the story who show them compassion were the old storekeeper and Ester. Franklin showed a displaced world …show more content…

The conditions of this place were grim. It sounds like the perfect setting for a horror movie, but there are still people living there. With swamps and rivers all around, it resembled an island since some places were accessible only by boat. The region is not pretty. The houses are ragged and drafty with “…knotholes big enough to look through…” (Franklin 129). Many of the house were empty and falling apart. Whenever there was a flood, a few houses disappeared. This place was not for the weak of heart. In these types of places, you find lost and broken …show more content…

Kirxy was one of them. He owned the old slanting store that did not really function anymore. The boys were the only customers if you could even call them that since it had been over a year since they paid him. They relied on Kirxy’s store for everything from food, gas, and other materials. When their father died, he tried to raise them but it was too late. Kirty sent them to school and the same day they were expelled for ganging up on a kid. The boys also scared his wife. Since she was sick, Kirxy had no other choice but to send them back to the woods. Kirxy also depended on them. They were the reason he keep moving forward. He was probably the only character in this story who once had a decent life. He lived with his wife in a nice two story house and his own business. After his wife died, his world crumbled. He did not stay his house “it easier to avoid the house”(131). Kirxy stayed in the store and cooked in a hot

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