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Iliad meander river1/2/2024 ![]() ![]() “This Tender Land” should earn Krueger more accolades. Krueger’s Cork O’Connor stories have earned the author several awards and his stand-alone “Ordinary Grace” won numerous awards including the Edgar and Anthony for best novel. This beautiful, tender land,” says a farmer surveying his acres. Hard work is “good work because it’s a part of what connects us to this land. The children will have to grow up and overcome their hardships before they can understand one character’s love of the land. In “This Tender Land,” Krueger keeps the tension high as danger lurks on each turn of the river as well as illustrating how the trip tests the friends’ bond, especially the relationship of the brothers. But they also find unexpected kindness from a family in a shantytown, ghettoized Jews, a boardinghouse owner who offers room and food to anyone, and a faith healer who offers them a temporary home. It is described as running and meandering with a mazy motion until it sinks. Along the way, they are held captive by a mad farmer who treats them as quasi family and indentured servants, visit homeless camps and meet train-hopping hobos. In Samuel Taylor Coleridges Kubla Khan, the river performs human actions. Newspaper accounts maintain that Emmy was kidnapped and law enforcement officers up and down the river are on the lookout for them, as are the cruel owners of the school.Įxcept for the naive Emmy, the children have learned not to trust adults and, for the most part, that is reinforced on the trip. But the trip is fraught with peril - from the rivers themselves and from the law. ![]() There, the brothers hope their Aunt Julia, whom they have only seen a few times, will take them all in. They plan to eventually make their way onto the Mississippi River with their final goal being St. Emmy’s mother and an ethical janitor are the only adults at the school who are kind to all the children.įed up with the abuse and trying to escape the aftermath of a fatal incident, the four set out on the canoe on the Gilead River that will connect to the Minnesota River. Their closest friends are Mose, a teenage Sioux whose tongue was cut off when he was a child, and Emmy, a bright little girl whose mother is a teacher at the school. The brothers stand out as the only white children among the Native Americans at the school where Odie is the rebel while Albert tries to go by the rules. ![]() “This Tender Land” opens in 1932 when narrator Odysseus “Odie” O’Banion and his brother Albert endure a constant barrage of brutal treatment at the Lincoln Indian Training School in Minnesota where they were sent after their bootlegger father was murdered. Meanders, named from the Menderes (historically known as the Maeander) River in Turkey, are most often formed in alluvial materials (stream-deposited sediments) and thus freely adjust their shapes and shift downstream according to the slope of the alluvial valley. ![]()
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