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Tom's Struggles In Plainsong
Plainsong, by Kent Haruf, is a novel about several characters and their own struggles in this small town in Holt, Colorado. All these characters eventually end up having some kind of connection with one another. This novel can show the types of struggles anyone may experience even in this small town of Colorado. Tom Guthrie is a teacher at the local school and father of Ike and Bobby. Tom is shown as a man very frustrated from the very beginning as he is separating from his wife and mother of his kids. His biggest issue in the novel becomes a situation with him and a failing student. His two sons, Ike and Bobby, become victims of their father's problem with that student and personally witness major issues like murder, violence and sex in
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