Rachel Colofs Story

Rachel Colof's Story

The auto biography of Rachel Colof was written to tell the reader about her and her family's struggles in the late nineteenth century and into the early twentieth. Rachel Colof is the author of the story and tells the story from her point of view. The book starts out in the later 1800's and begins telling about her childhood and living conditions that she encountered in Europe, as the story continues so does the time line on which it is told.

When the story starts out she talks about how life is in Europe and how the living conditions are in the part of the country she is from. She tells about the struggles of her mom dying when she was just a little girl and her father didn't want to remarry to make sure the kids had a nice and loving mother. Rachel tells how she lived with her religious grandfather and a short time after living there she learns that her aunt, who lives in the same town as her brothers and sisters, is looking to hire a maid. Rachel decides that that is her best option so that she can stay in touch with her remaining family members. After a short time of working hard and learning to be a maid, Rachel catches word from an uncle that he has found a possible way to travel to the United States to marry a young man there who is looking for a wife. She realizes that she is beginning to get past the age of finding herself a man of her own to marry and she decides that this is best for her.

When she gets to the U.S. she sees her soon to be husband and is overjoyed to see somebody who can help her. Her new boyfriend, Abraham, takes her to a house where they stay until the travel west to become a pioneer family. Rachel talks about how she knows so little about him but learns to soon trust him because he is all she has. As the make the long and treacherous journey west to North Dakota the two of them become even closer. When the two of them finally make it to North Dakota they meet up with Abe's family. As Abe's parents show the two of them around Rachel becomes an emotional mess but holds her feelings in. Rachel and Abe soon learn that they are going to have to stay with Abe's parents because their shack has yet to be finished and that they do not have the money to finish it.

Rachel does a good job at letting the reader know her feelings and goes into great detail on how she feels about her new way of living. She tells about her