Resumen
Resumen de Mis amigos de Brook Farm
Para quién es
For readers who love American history, Transcendentalists, utopian experiments, and boyhood memoirs full of snowstorms, pageants, music, and lively companions, and for anyone curious how ideals look in daily life.
De qué trata este libro
Imagine a boy from a Dutch-speaking neighborhood in Albany, sent in winter to a farm school near Boston where grown people try to live by their ideals. My Friends at Brook Farm is John Van der Zee Sears's warm memoir of the 1840s community founded by the Reverend George Ripley. Written late in life, when few of his companions remained, it asks that the people he knew there be remembered with respect. You meet Greeley, Emerson, Hawthorne, Dana and Fuller, and you see how a French plan changed their lives. To begin, we go to Albany.
En este resumen
- 1A Dutch Boyhood in AlbanyFree
- 2How Greeley Led to Brook Farm
- 3A Bad Beginning Becomes a Good One
- 4Work, School and the Habit of Attention
- 5Play, Pageants and Conversation
- 6Fourier, the Phalanx and the End
Idea clave 1 de 6
A Dutch Boyhood in Albany
Sears begins in the Old Colony of Albany, where Dutch settlers arrived in 1624 and their descendants still kept Dutch speech and customs two centuries later. His father sold flour by the canal basin. His mother sang Dutch nursery rhymes to her children.
The boy spends happy days at his grandfather's farm, where two elderly Black servants, Tone and Cleo, treat him as the heir of the place. Sears tells this with candor. It is one of several moments where the memoir shows the odd mixtures of the age.
Every spring the May Conventions bring vegetarians, temperance speakers, abolitionists and Quakers to New York, each sure that its cause will restore a Golden Age. Sears goes along and once hears Horace Greeley speak. This is the world he must leave.
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Questions about Mis amigos de Brook Farm
What is My Friends at Brook Farm about?
It is a memoir of a boyhood at Brook Farm, the 1840s community near Boston. John Van der Zee Sears recalls the school, the work, the entertainments, the famous visitors, and the final troubles that closed the experiment.
What was Brook Farm?
Brook Farm was a community of about two hundred acres in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, founded by the Unitarian minister George Ripley. Its members farmed, taught school and shared work and leisure. They later reorganized as a Fourierist Phalanx.
Who is Cedar in the book?
Cedar is the nickname the author earned at Brook Farm. It comes from the smell of the cedar chest his clothes were packed in, and his friends and classmates used it for him afterward.
Which famous people appear in My Friends at Brook Farm?
The author describes Horace Greeley, Thurlow Weed, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, Charles Dana, Albert Brisbane, and Isaac Hecker. He met many of them as a child, through his father or at the farm.
Is My Friends at Brook Farm easy to read?
Yes, in the sense that matters: it is a friendly, anecdotal memoir told in short scenes, with jokes, school stories and sketches of people. You can open any chapter and enjoy it without background in Transcendentalism.