Essay On The Influences In Ron Rash's Serena

Serena and the influences of the 1920s Although some of the dates surrounding the establishing of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park may be off by a few years, Ron Rash’s novel, Serena absolutely painted a very realistic picture of what life was like in the mid to late nineteen hundred for the southern portions of America. There were a copious amount of significant influences in the roaring twenties, and later on in the eighteenth century that had their affect in the novel of Serena. These influences include, the lumber mills rush against time, stock market crashes, and the poor medical influence in the lumber mills and rural areas. From start to finish Serena, and George Pemberton are on a race against time facing the United States government, and the community of the North Carolina Mountains, for the broad, and generous timber that they hold. In late 1890’s the idea for the Smokey Mountains national park was set forth by, Ann Davis, David Chapman, and may others. It was not until 1940 that the park officially opened as a National park. (Parn) Prior to this the Southern Applications logging company’s had a lot to do in a short amount of time. Serena had big plans for their stretch of land in North Carolina and soon she and Pemberton set up their own residence in the camp, Pemberton even working alongside the other
The park successfully opened its gates in 1940. After the land was paid for and the loggers, and miners were gone the people of Tennessee, and South Carolina were left with a grim outlook on what was once a beautiful territory. Where there were chestnut trees the size or buildings and streams that offered drinking water and food supply, were replaced with dried up dirt and the sediment of shrub, and timber. The estate of the park are still to this day recovering from the people that stripped it, and the people that tried to save