Potatoes were grown because they have all the necessary vitamins in them and only the potatoes would suffice to feed a family when grown on such tiny holdings. In 1845 a fungus, called Phytophthora infestans (commonly known as potato blight) attacked the potato crop and destroyed half of it. Yet, this was not a catastrophe and people would pray for the next years' crop to be a proper one but it was even worse and on top of that, the winter of 1846 was the "severest in living memory". The crop, which previously had provided 60% of the nations' food needs, failed. Many families were evicted because they couldn't pay for their land. Hand in hand, starvation and diseases spreaded all across the country. As soon as spring began, people started emigrating to Canada - ships bringing lumber to England were glad to receive paying passengers. Almost every ship had a third of their passenger's die at sea or upon their arrival
the black slaves, he describes the disintegration of southern culture after the civil war, the cheap materialism of later industrial society, fragmented 20th century, where moral codes have become mechanical rituals. Each of his books describe the towns experience that we get the picture of the long history of this place as. His attitude, his ambivalent. One the one hand he was deeply attached to the south, he wrote about the south, lived there. He was its severest critic. His literary method is southern modernism-apart from having southern features his fiction has modernism. He experiments a lot, casts aside traditional ways of writing, he is innovative in structure and style, he invents language, he manages to merge sense of regional history with awareness of historical time. We could say that typical form is that of single consciousness. His own term for the way he is writing is mental flow. He loves inner monologue
decided against me, you would have acknowledged it to Lady Catherine, frankly and openly." Elizabeth coloured and laughed as she replied, "Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations." "What did you say of me, that I did not deserve? For, though your accusations were ill- founded, formed on mistaken premises, my behaviour to you at the time had merited the severest reproof. It was unpardonable. I cannot think of it without abhorrence." "We will not quarrel for the greater share of blame annexed to that evening," said Elizabeth. "The conduct of neither, if strictly examined, will be irreproachable; but since then, we have both, I hope, improved in civility." "I cannot be so easily reconciled to myself. The recollection of what I then said, of my conduct, my manners, my expressions during the whole of it, is now, and has been many
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