'George Washington Carver: Mans Slave Becomes God's Scientist'

The setting of the story “George Washington Carver: Man’s Slave becomes God’s Scientist” plays a major role in the story. The setting starts off in rural Missouri when George Washington Carver is a young boy. The setting plays an imperative role because the setting allows young Carver to discover his talent, plants. Carver finds “death” in the trees, which only he noticed or else the whole orchard would’ve have been destroyed. As he grows older, the setting changes. He starts going to school. Later he goes to college and after he graduates he becomes a teacher there. A couple years later he goes to Tuskegee university to teach. There is where the setting plays the biggest role because the setting is what drives him and his students to make
Basically, that just said they had terrible land and and they were going ot have to do a lot of work to be able to plant cotton. This next excerpt show what they do next “ ‘Our twenty acres… In a few weeks, the hearty stalks grew straight and full of blossoms in the sun… Harvest provided the happiest time of all. Each acre produced a five hundred pound bale of cotton. ’ “(Collins 87) This statement emphasises that the setting affects the plot because they saw what they had to work with so, then they started working and putting everything in motion. Which means that the setting gave them a challenge in this case which was the unsuitable land for farming and they overcame the obstacle by working through it. Without the setting they would not have any hurdles therefore leaving the story monotonous and dull. Another example to prove this is this statement,”And then came the killer… Proud blossoms become empty shells, ravaged by the monster beasts… ‘Our crop lie worthless in the fields… We are all ruined,”(Collins 100-101) This quote shows the destruction the Boll Weevil used and how it left everyone devastated. Furthermore, this quote demonstrates what they did in response to the predicament,”The peanut