THE HARVEST

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THE HARVEST

• By Josh, Patrick, and Sebastian

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Plot Summary

• The plot of the story is where these young boys
  wonder what old Don Trine does everyday.
• So they try to find out as they spy on him the
  next day. But they did not expect what they saw
• They thought that Don Trine had some hidden
  money, but what they found had nothing to do with
  money at all.
• What he was really doing was digging holes and
  feeling the inside of them.

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Characterization

• The Characters of The Harvest, are a couple of
  boys and old Don Trine.
• The boys think Don Trine is rich even though he
  does not show it because he never appears to buy
  anything, and food rarely.
• They all get this scheme to follow Don Trine to
  where his secret passage you goes through leads.
• But they find out he wasnt rich and that old Don
  Trine was just a man who loves the earth.
• Then they make there leave. Later on of the boys
  who went to see what Don Trine was doing went to
  a field and he repeated the process he watched
  Trine do, and he felt the same way as Trine did
  and he enjoyed doing the same thing Trine did.

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Rising action and Climax

• The rising action of the story is where they
  young boys are following Don Trine to where he
  always goes, and Trine always got infuriated when
  someone would offer to walk him.
• To the boys, Don Trine was a rich old man, and
  they wanted to steal the money.
• The climax of the story is when they find out
  what he really did in the ditch they followed him
  to.

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Falling action and Resolution

• The falling action of the story is when the boys
  leave and they ignore Don Trine and everything
  returns to normal.
• The resolution of the story is after there little
  investigation they lose interest, however, one
  of the boys does not lose interest at all.
• And he later on recreates the digging that Don
  Trine did and he likes it just as much as Trine
  did.

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Literary elements

• The frost that killed at night. This is an
  example of personification , because the frost
  does not literally try to kill the night plants.

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Timeline

• The timeline of The Harvest is in October and it
  is the time after the harvest of the land had
  occurred.

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Point of View

• The Story is told in the 3rd person.

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Author Information

• Tomás Rivera

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Tomás Rivera

• Born in Crystal City, Texas on December 22, 1935
• Attended Crystal City High School and Texas State
  University-San Marcos
• Earned a bachelors degree in English and a
  masters degree in education administration
• Earned a masters degree in Spanish literature
  and a doctorate in Romance languages at the
  University of Oklahoma.

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Tomá Rivera

• Most of his works were in Spanish, and translated
  into English by others
• Tomás Rivera worked in the fields, the setting of
  The Harvest
• Died on March 16, 1984, in his home in Fontana,
  California