Where You Once Belonged: A Novel Setting & Symbolism

Kent Haruf
This Study Guide consists of approximately 24 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Where You Once Belonged.

Where You Once Belonged: A Novel Setting & Symbolism

Kent Haruf
This Study Guide consists of approximately 24 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Where You Once Belonged.
This section contains 461 words
(approx. 2 pages at 400 words per page)
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Refrigerator

Jack Burdette and a group of high school boys, including Pat Arbuckle, steal a refrigerator off the back porch of a retired fisherman's house in order to have something to keep their beer cold.

Radio

Jack is kicked out of college for stealing another student's radio.

Jessie has Pat print a legal notice in the newspaper that states she is not responsible for her husband's debts in uneducated and bordering on vulgar language. This notice does little to keep the townspeople from taking their anger out on Jessie.

Brown Bag of Laundry

A few months after learning Jack Burdette married Jessie, Wanda Jo returns a brown bag of laundry to him that she had washed while he was in Oklahoma meeting Jessie. The laundry has all been cut into little pieces.

Red Cadillac

Jack Burdette returns to Holt, Colorado eight years after embezzling one hundred...

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