{"id":16684,"date":"2025-10-19T12:54:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T19:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/?p=16684"},"modified":"2025-11-14T09:29:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:29:03","slug":"irje-1-lauren-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/irje-1-lauren-2\/","title":{"rendered":"IRJE 2#"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The first four years,\u00a0<\/em>written by Laura Ingalls Wilder is the last book in the\u00a0<em>Little house<\/em> series, and it features a young pioneer girl growing up on the American prairies in 1885-1889. The book was published in 1971 after Laura&#8217;s death, and found as an unfinished manuscript and published by her daughter, Rose Wilder Lane. It describes the hardships of harvest, surviving winter, and family. (This next part is Almonso and Laura speaking)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Well, as the Irishman said, &#8216;Everything is evened up in this world. The rich have their ice in the summer but the poor get theirs in the winter&#8217;. Laura refused to make a joke of it. She said, I don&#8217;t always want to be poor and work hard while the people in town take it easy and make money off us. (page4 bottom text).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This passage represents how most hard working farmers felt about harvest. They thought that it was unnecessary for them to work, as the rich had fancy ways to harvest crops, but the farmers had to do it themselves anyway. This caused resentment and anger. In my opinion, this reminds me of what Karl Marx says about capitalism, and how the rich get what they desire from the earnings of the poor, while the poor work for money they will never really receive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first four years,\u00a0written by Laura Ingalls Wilder is the last book in the\u00a0Little house series, and it features a young pioneer girl growing up on the American prairies in 1885-1889. The book was published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-independent-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16684"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17095,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16684\/revisions\/17095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericmacknight.com\/english10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}