Sentences with phrase «realities of a rural life»

Christina Olson's life is limited by her parents, her illness, and the realities of a rural life in the first half of the 20th century.

Not exact matches

If we are to believe in «majority rules» (and I think that most people in this province do), the reality is that the MAJORITY of people in this province live in urban areas, not rural ones.

A period drama set in post-World War II Mississippi, based on a novel of the same name by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound tells the story of two men — one African American, one white — returning home from the war to go to work on a rural Mississippi farm, each struggling to readjust to the realities of American life, including the intense racism of the period.

Sheila Roberts: Filmmaker Dee Rees assembles a powerful ensemble cast in «Mudbound» to bring to life Hillary Jordan's international bestseller about two families living in rural Mississippi following WWII who face the harsh realities of farming and the brutal social barriers of the Jim Crow South.

The film illustrates the lives of white and black families in rural Mississippi as they confront the brutal realities of prejudice, farming, and friendship in a divided post World War II era.

In this lifelong story, Lilian and Myraleen struggle through dramatically changing times: From the stark realities of life in rural Mississippi, through the different sort of racism they find in workaday Philadelphia and France during World War II.

The arrival of the «talkies» from Hollywood provided relief from the harsh economic realities, while novels such as John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath brought into sharp relief the reality of life in rural America.

The rural surroundings of his youth proved formative to his practice, and it was in Sidi Bouzid amongst the long - standing traditions of folk tales and poetry that his preoccupation with lived and virtual reality was sown.

Vote for Rain represents a growing clash between the realities of rural and urban life and denial that nature itself has changed, masked by demands that «The Government» do something.