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He had put himself to a lot of trouble to get the turnips; it was a long and tiresome walk all the way to Fuller and back again.  \nThe day before, Lov had heard that a man over there was selling winter turnips for fifty cents a bushel, so he had started out with half a dollar early that morning to buy some. He had already walked seven and a half miles, and it was a mile and a half yet back to his house at the coal chute.  \nFour or five of the Lesters were standing in the yard looking at Lov when he put his sack down and stopped in front of the house. They had been watching Lov ever since he was first seen an hour before on the sandhill nearly two miles away, and now that he was actually within reach, they were prepared to stop him from carrying the turnips any farther.  \nLov had his wife to feed and provide for, in addition to himself, and he was careful not to allow any of the Lesters to come too close to the sack of turnips. Usually when he came by the Lester place with turnips or sweet potatoes, or for that matter with any kind of food, he left the road half a mile from the house and made a wide circle through the fields, returning to the road a safe distance beyond. Today, though, he had to speak to Jeeter about something of great importance, and he had ventured closer to the house than he had ever done before when carrying home turnips or sweet potatoes.  \nLov’s wife was Jeeter Lester ’s youngest daughter, Pearl. She was only twelve years old the summer before when he had married her.  \nThe Lesters watched Lov closely while he stood in the middle of the road. He had dropped the sack from his shoulder, but he held the neck of it in the rigid grasp of both hands. No one in the yard had changed his position during the past ten minutes. The next move was left entirely up to Lov.  \nWhen Lov came to the house and stopped, he had a good reason for doing so; otherwise he would never have come within hailing distance. He wanted to speak to Jeeter about Pearl.  \nPearl would not talk. She would not say a word, no matter how persuasive Lov tried to be, nor how angry he was; she even hid from Lov when he came home from the coal chute, and when he found her, she slipped away from his grasp and ran off into the broom-sedge out of sight. Sometimes she would even stay in the broom-sedge all night, remaining out there until Lov went to work the next morning.  \nPearl had never talked, for that matter. Not because she could not, but simply because she did not want to. When she was at home, before Lov had married her, she had stayed apart from the other Lesters and rarely opened her mouth from the beginning of one day to the next. Only her mother, Ada, had been able to converse with her, and even then Pearl had never used more than the barest of negatives and affirmatives in reply. But Ada was herself like that. She had begun to talk voluntarily only during the past ten years. Before then, Jeeter had had the same trouble with her that Lov was now having with Pearl.  \nLov asked Pearl questions, he kicked her, he poured water over her, he threw rocks and sticks at her, and he did everything else he could think of that he thought might make her talk to him. She cried a lot, especially when she was seriously hurt, but Lov did not consider that as conversation. He wanted her to ask him if his back were sore, and when was he going to get  \nhis hair cut, and when was it going to rain again. But Pearl would not say anything.  \nHe had spoken to Jeeter several times before about h","cbCaieWMp9TKUss0","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieWMp9TKUss0","pdf",3089838,200,"English","# Contents\n## Chapter I\n## Chapter II\n## Chapter III\n## Chapter IV\n## Chapter V\n## Chapter VI\n## Chapter VII\n## Chapter VIII\n## Chapter IX\n## Chapter X\n## Chapter XI\n## Chapter XII\n## Chapter XIII\n## Chapter XIV\n## Chapter XV\n## Chapter XVI\n## Chapter XVII\n## Chapter XVIII\n## Chapter XIX\n## A Biography of Erskine Caldwell","[{\"question\":\"Who is the main character introduced at the start of the excerpt?\",\"answer\":\"Lov Bensey is introduced as he trudges home with winter turnips and then confronts the situation involving Pearl Lester.\"},{\"question\":\"What key problem does Lov face at home?\",\"answer\":\"Lov’s wife Jeeter’s youngest daughter, Pearl, refuses to talk and avoids him, often hiding in broom-sedge and staying away for long periods.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the excerpt emphasize hunger and what effect does it have?\",\"answer\":\"The narrative links hunger to speech and unrest: Ada’s long silence loosens over time when hunger drives her to complain, mirroring the struggle around Pearl.\"}]","Tobacco Road | PDF",308]