It describes the Ingallses' migration from Wisconsin to Kansas, where they build an illegal homestead on land reserved for the Osage tribe, and suffer a series of Job-like tribulations: predation by wolves and panthers, a prairie fire, malaria, blizzards, menacing encounters with the Indians, and a near-fatal well-gas accident.
The portrait of the Deep South 30 years ago, with its decaying colonial houses with names like Tribulation and its battery of tragic spinster women, manages at once to be both authentic and, at the same time, second-hand.
Whether, like Ganguly, his tribulations with the bat were impacting on the team in a manner other than simply the lack of runs is doubtful.
The film is more a patched-together collection of anecdotes than a coherent story, and some of Greg's tribulations, like fear over a high dive and an amusement-park ride, don't seem age-appropriate for a boy who has just finished seventh grade.
Health restored or a rescue from accidental death are recurring themes, but there is much to be gleaned about local society in subjects referring to crime, domestic situations and everyday trials and tribulations, like property disputes and farm and business incidents.
The Jawandas have the full gamut of trials and tribulations, like other people.
She notes that when these figures express relatable personal tribulations, like Chester Bennington did with his mental health, we deepen our connection.
"Victoria and the Staveneys," the story of a poor black girl growing up in London, is told with seeming artlessness for much of its length: a neo-Victorian, Gissing-like account of tribulation and social struggle.
Brown's characters are different from Uncle Tom, Eliza, and Topsy, but they're no less didactic, and his novel, like Stowe's, follows their desperate fates, trial heaped upon tribulation, like so many ice floes crashing into the banks of the Mississippi.
Speculative theories are laid out without evidence to back them up, and the book owes a large (and sometimes unacknowledged) debt to earlier scholarship, borrowing heavily from works like "The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood" by Jack Zipes, Maria Tatar's "Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales" and Ruth Bottigheimer's "Grimms Badd Girls and Bold Boys".
