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Chapter 1 |
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Similar works
John
Compares Bluebonnets to Similar Literary Works-
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the Bluebonnets Come in Spring is a contemporary story of the
people of the land and small rural towns of Texas. But while
contemporary, it is a story not only of the present, but very much
of the past--and, ultimately, the future. While the Christian world
view holds a central place in the book, it is a novel with much
conflict between Christianity and modern times and culture, and even
Christianity and its own declared beliefs.
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voices have contributed to the voice of Katie Shanahan. Like Pat
Conway's Prince of Tides, Bluebonnets presents a world
of much beauty marred and threatened by hideous evil. Like Harper
Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, it unflinchingly confronts,
through the eyes of a child, the challenge of different kinds of
people who profess to hold that it is right to get along, actually
doing so. Like Forrest Carter's The Education of Little Tree
and Gone to Texas (The Outlaw Josey Wales), it offers
insights as wry and frequently hilarious as they are penetrating and
heartbreaking about the struggle of the little man of the land to
make his way in a world dominated by big cities, big money, and big
plans for paving over pastures and forests. Like Robert Penn
Warren's All the King's Men, it bears frank testament to the
toll those uninvited and overweening forces can exact from that
little man. And like Larry McMurtry's Horseman, Pass By
and Lonesome Dove, When the Bluebonnets Come in Spring
is, finally, a Texan poem of love to the frail, broken, silly, brave
people whose tale it chronicles.
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