Good vs. Evil
This is a story of two families´ lives and times all the way from The Civil War to WW1- The Trasks and the Hamiltons.
Most of the novel is placed in Salinas Valley in Northern California, Which is described as a land of sharp contrasts. The land is inviting and unfriendly, light and dark, safe and dangerous. These oppositions underlie the central clash in the novel, between what we see as good or as evil. Just as the land's contradictions, we get to follow these families' contradictions in the their behaviours, their feelings, their humanity.
The driving force o…
