Epilogue: franks crimes are suppressed by the family and then David's family move away from bentrock to the city. Frank is finally over come by the whole situation and kills himself. Julian is not satisfied and sends a few men that work for him around to the house to brake him out but it is unsuccessful. Julian comes around to the house and is extremely angry and demands frank to be released now but Wes refuses. Part three: Wes arrests frank for sexual assault and instead of taking him to the station he locks him up in the basement. But a few days later Marie little solider is murdered and frank is the prime suspect.
Wes confronts his grandfather about it and is not fazed by it at all and try to get Wes to stop the investigation. Part two: Wes begins to investigate the allegations and the evidence starts to build against frank. After the visit the first allegations of sexual abuse surface about frank. Then Marie little soldier gets sick and needs to see a doctor but when Gail suggests she sees uncle frank she does not want to see him, but she is convinced to see him anyway. Plot Prolog: David as an adult looking back on the events of 1948 and how he remembers 3 important people his father his mother and Marie little soldier Part one: we are introduced to the town and the post war way of life of the people in the town of Bentrock. In the morning, Wesley finds that Frank killed himself by slitting his wrists with the broken glass.Īfter that, David and his family moves out of Bentrock, ending the fight between Wes and his dad.Montana 1948 Plot Setting Key characters Themes Key quotes The sound of jars breaking in the basement, so the family wakes up.
Wesley's moral values override his family loyalty and he agrees to take his brother to the local jail the next day. Gail later pleads for Wes to stop the nonsense and take Frank out the home so everything would stop. Gail tries to scare them away by firing shotgun shots into the air.
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Wesley and Frank's father Julian is opposed to Frank's arrest and sends men to break Frank free at the house when Wesley is not there. Wesley arrests Frank, who admits to killing Marie and molesting Native American women and arrests him in the basement, in order to avoid the embarrassment Frank would experience by going to the local jail.
Eventually, David decides to tell his parents Frank leaving their house time Marie died, implying that Frank was involved in the actions. David, who was playing with his grandfather's pistol, once contemplates shooting Frank because of all the troubles he has given their family. When David admits to seeing his uncle leave the residence hours before his babysitter's death, Wesley later confronts Frank about his actions at a family dinner at their parents' house and they reach a compromise, where Wes agrees to forget the whole incident. When Marie is found dead after making significant recovery before, Frank convinces the family that the cause of death was pneumonia. It was awarded the Milkweed National Fiction Prize. The novella focuses on the life of young Montanan David Hayden, his family and the fictional town of Bentrock, Montana, and focuses on the struggles of a family torn between loyalty and justice. Montana 1948 is a 1993 novella by Larry Watson.
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