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Giants in the Earth Summary & Study Guide Description
Giants in the Earth Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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Giants in the Earth Plot Summary
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O. E. Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth narrates the story of a Norwegian immigrant family's struggles on the American plains from 1873 to 1881. The novel details the triumphs, hardships, and ultimate tragedies of South Dakota farmers as they try to wrest a livelihood from a land that, while fertile, often proves actively hostile to human habitation.
Book I: "The Land-Taking"
As the novel opens, Per Hansa leads his family with their meager possessions over the vast emptiness of the Dakotas' grassy plains. With him are his pregnant wife Beret, his sons Ole and StoreHans, and his young daughter, And-Ongen. The family is searching for their traveling party, whom they had to leave when their rickety wagon was damaged. The family, especially Beret, fears that they are lost and may never locate their settlement, a predicament that could prove fatal, Unable to sleep, Per Hansa travels out at night and discovers evidence of...
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