The Most They Ever Had Book Review

Cory W. Smith Mrs. Huskinsson English 101 18 November 2012 Book Review: The Most They Ever Had The Most They Ever Had is an account of affliction, difficult work, and penance. It is a coordinated effort of meetings directed on the material laborers of the Profile cotton plant in Jacksonville, Alabama. The writer of the book, Rick Bragg, incorporates the tales of these individuals since he is one of them. He was brought up in Jacksonville, Alabama. His more established sibling, Sam, worked at the plant. Bragg composed this account of his kin since it was a story that should have been heard.The Most They Ever Had tells the basic existences of the men that simply needed to get by to help a family and endure this life to get to the following. The title is so fitting since they lived such basic lives that the plant coming to town implied endurance. It implied having a fairly steady activity and the capacity to purchase a house and put nourishment on the table. It was, truth be told, the m ost they at any point had. The activity accompanied a cost, in any case. The laborers paid for their methods for endurance with their wellbeing. They worked unventilated rooms immersed with lint.The consistent inward breath of these moment particles in the end made harm the laborers lungs causing an ailment called â€Å"brown lung. † Because the activity was so looked for after, the laborers could lose their employment for the littlest setbacks, in any event, missing one day of work because of sickness. The laborers could be debilitated as canines, yet they would at present check in a put in their every day hours. Their every day battles can show the perusers a lessonâ€to never underestimate things throughout everyday life. These laborers work resolutely throughout each and every day just to put a rooftop over their family’s head and nourishment on the table.They worked in horrible conditions, yet they seldom whined on the grounds that they acknowledged what they ha d. That, I accept, is a fundamental reason behind this book. Not exclusively to recount to the perusers the narratives of these genuine American legends, yet additionally to show them this significant exercise. The Profile cotton factory opened its entryways in Jacksonville, Alabama in 1905 and stayed open until 2001 when it shut down all of a sudden and left the laborers despite everything attempting to take care of home loans with no benefits. Bragg recounts to the accounts of the mountain individuals from this area simply attempting to get by check to check. He bits of knowledge us on the dictator factory proprietors and managers.He additionally illuminates us regarding the disasters the laborers persevered through like Charlie Hardy’s story of how he, â€Å"one of the best entryway patio guitar pickers,† lost his â€Å"picking arm† to a machine in the plant and needed to surrender his ability. Or on the other hand the sad story of Leon Spears, the multi year elderly person that started working at the plant when he was seventeen that needs to convey an oxygen tank close by as a result of the harm done to his lungs by the cotton filled quality of the plant. Bragg clarifies how the degenerate supervisors would fault the workers’ upset breathing on aftereffects and lethargy as opposed to lacking working conditions.Still, in any case, the laborers would show up for quite a while in light of the fact that they realized that the factory gave them a methods for endurance. The laborers of the plant never surrendered trust, however, that things would show signs of improvement, and, in the end, they did. After some time conditions improved. Profile plant laborers, in time, earned â€Å"one of the best manual checks in the lower regions. † The book is instructive on the grounds that it does precisely thatâ€it illuminates. On the off chance that I had not perused this book, I would have never taken in the narratives of these courag eous Americans and their families. It mentions to you what life in a mid twentieth century factory town was like.Bragg doesn’t stop at educational, be that as it may. He depicts the workers’ stories such that one gets joined to them. Bragg writes in such a persuasive and engaging way that before the finish of the book, one accepts that the individual really knows the plant laborers of Jacksonville, Alabama. One of the most stunning parts of this book, as I would like to think, is that the laborers living this disaster didn’t even understand that they were living one. It was only their life. They worked in such brutal working conditions and under such covetous managers, yet they didn’t take a gander at themselves with feel sorry for. They didn’t complain.They did what they needed to do to help their family and to get by. Another serious piece of the book for me was perusing Charlie Hardy’s story. Charlie lost his arm to a machine and by resul t needed to abandon his ability of guitar playing. Since I am a performer myself, I can scarcely envision what it might feel want to be informed that I could always be unable to play the guitar once more. Rick Bragg’s The Most They Ever Had is stunning book of victory over battle. The plant laborers of Jacksonville, Alabama gave life and appendage to accommodate their family and never surrendered trust that some time or another things would get better.They never abandoned their families that relied upon that check. The Most They Ever Had shows that things in life don’t consistently come simple and that we should buckle down for the things in life we love most. I strongly prescribe this book to anybody that prefers a decent triumph story in light of the fact that that’s what this story comes down to. It’s the account of how the laborers of the Profile cotton factory attempting to defeated the battles of regular day to day existence in the material plant of Jacksonville, Alabama. Works Cited: Bragg, Rick. the most they at any point had. San Fransisco: MacAdam/Cage, 2009. Print.