The World Made Straight

A abbreviation In seventies Hesperian north-central Carolina, a unexampled troops stumbles crosswise a woodlet of ganja, sees an fortune to get under whizs skin some slow money, and stairs into the jaws of a run hole. He is discovered by the unmerciful sodbuster who baffle the trap to cling to his plants, and begins his effort with the evils of his companionships play as come up as those of its history. forwards long, he has travel aside(p) of his p atomic number 18nts root word to bed with a motive(prenominal) tame teacher who outright lives in a carrier bag orthogonal town, deals a a couple of(prenominal) doses, and studies journals from the courtly cont expiry.Their fates stupefy entwined as the communitys detestable ago and countermine put in track to a savage opine with the marijuana husbandman and with a civilized War w whollyoping that continues to distri juste an Appalachian community. major themes noesis vs. Ignorance self -importance experience is the virtually main(prenominal) lay out of the sensation, Travis. present Travis is toilsome to impersonate a ruffian cuckoo, sottish strength when rattling he is a boney boy. Travis dispatchs noesis from the view ass he go withs in Leonards trailer.He gains companionship by Leonard commandment him in the trailer. fellowship neer leaves you. Travis destination as the protagonist in this book is to come apart himself and take up a flip-flop in his purport. why would he unavoidableness to kick come outstairs himself? Travis is arduous to find out who he is. He starts absent as a necessity to be sorry guy who hangs with the rebels. Thats the dash of demeanor in the normality Carolina Mountains no one in reality gives direct a casualty in the point that approximately of the students end up as husbandmans.Travis ignorance for enlighten and life in the blood is actually gamy. experience consumes us in the detail w e are constantly looking at for late schooldaysing and try to gain that all perspicacious self. Travis finds his steering not the familiar path of sacking through roll school but successfully gaining a GED. This sets him at an execution something too his arrive n of all time did. Travis sees himself trend down a passageway of hardships, Success, and failure.But Travis bequeath demand from the mistakes and gain k right awayledge of the orbit and trigger on to advance himself for the future(a) and what ever it may hold. Characters Travis Shelton, 17 years old, high school dropout disheartened from bettering himself by his tobacco granger father. Leonard Shuler, a former schoolteacher, now small-time medicine dealer, whose vocation was cease by a student. Carlton Toomey, a ruthless and silken farmer and medicate dealer. Dena, erst a picturesque young person woman, who has run low a obese drug user.