Name : Krisna Ismawati
Npm : 16611075
"A good man is hard to find"
This novel told about the family is planning
a vacation in Florida, but the grandmother points out that there is an escaped
murderer loose there, and she wouldn't take her family to such a place! She
wants to go to east Tennessee. Her son, Bailey, tells her she can stay home,
then. The children roll their eyes at her--they know she can't stand to be left
behind. She tells June Star not to be so smart. The next morning she is first
in the car. She is smartly dressed (so they know she is a lady if there is an
accident and she dies) and has her cat hidden in a basket at her feet, so
Bailey won't see--he won't like her bringing the cat. She sits in the back
between John Wesley and June Star. Their mother is still dressed in her slacks
with a kerchief tied around her head. She is holding the baby. The grandmother
warns her son not to drive too fast, and she points out the sights to
everyone--it's a pretty day. They stop for lunch at a roadside place, The
Tower. The owner, a man with a pot belly named Red Sammy, is working on a truck
and his wife, a tall burnt woman, takes their order. The mother plays the juke
box, and then June Star tap dances on the dance floor. They get back in the car
and drive on. After a while, the grandmother thinks she remembers a plantation
she once visited in this area. She suggests they go and the more she talks
about it the more she wants to go. Bailey says no. Everyone is all right--the
mom has a broken shoulder, that's all--and the children are delighted with all
the fuss. June Star is disappointed that no one was killed. She watches the
grandmother crawl out of the car, her clothes and hat all disarranged.
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