Summary of Mary Pipher's A Life in Light

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 When I was five, my family was in a difficult situation. My father had signed up for the army just as the United States entered the Korean War. He had been home once in the three years since he had left in the fall of 1949. Mother was always busy, and we children were left with housekeepers who could not satisfy our mother’s standards.
#2 I remember the most beautiful thing I had ever seen was the fountain at the train station. I would spend hours watching the lights dance in the water, and eventually, it would be time to go home.
#3 When my father returned from the Korean War, he was not used to being a father. He had been living with army men who in their rare free hours drank, played cards, and explored local nightlife. He and my mother fought every evening.
#4 I remember the trailer I lived in with my father, which was small and dark. I felt uneasy in it. My father was rarely there, and when he was, he would bring us food or groceries, but other times he would just leave us there.

Sujets

• Personal Memoirs
• Biography
• Autobiography

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 23 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822547049
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Mary Pipher's A Life in Light
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

When I was five, my family was in a difficult situation. My father had signed up for the army just as the United States entered the Korean War. He had been home once in the three years since he had left in the fall of 1949. Mother was always busy, and we children were left with housekeepers who could not satisfy our mother’s standards.

#2

I remember the most beautiful thing I had ever seen was the fountain at the train station. I would spend hours watching the lights dance in the water, and eventually, it would be time to go home.

#3

When my father returned from the Korean War, he was not used to being a father. He had been living with army men who in their rare free hours drank, played cards, and explored local nightlife. He and my mother fought every evening.

#4

I remember the trailer I lived in with my father, which was small and dark. I felt uneasy in it. My father was rarely there, and when he was, he would bring us food or groceries, but other times he would just leave us there.

#5

I had a difficult home life, and I struggled at school. I had no recollection of Christmas or any other holidays that long year. My relatives were kind to me, but most of them had busy, complicated lives of their own.

#6

When my father, brother, and I arrived in Kansas, we were met by our mother, who had just returned from Florida. I was overjoyed to see her, and I felt as if I had survived the hardest thing possible.

#7

I was afraid of surgery when I had appendicitis, and I didn’t have any books to help me understand the process. I was alone with my thoughts and my stomachache. Eventually, a nurse came in to give me a shot to put me to sleep. I refused it, and the doctor gave me the shot anyway.

#8

When I was younger, I was always afraid of making mistakes or being a bad girl, so I was very docile. One day, I bit a doctor when he came to take my temperature, and I was afraid that I would be exiled again.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

We moved to Beaver City, Nebraska, in the summer of fourth grade, and I loved outdoor sleeping. I could hear coyotes calling and the hoots of great horned owls. Frogs croaked happily on nearby farm ponds, and crickets and cicadas sang from the pastures and fields.

#2

I loved to swim as a child.