Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Half Broke Horses
Lily
- childhood and youth (1901-1919)
- dugout in Salt Draw
- natural disasters, serious diseases
- she does not give in, helps her sister and
brother to cope as well
- Catholic school in Santa Fe
- her father has wasted the money for the tuition fees on dogs
- job as a replacement teacher (war)
- men return fom World War 1 --> Lily is
dismissed as a teacher
- life in a big city (Chicago)
- years as a teacher and a young wife
- time in Chicago (1919-1928)
- is on her own in a big city
- finds a place to stay, searches for a job, Minnie
- hates the arrogant way she is
treated as a maid
- takes evening classes to get a high school
diploma (better future)
- death of Minnie
- at the end (1943-1956)
- 1934-1939