The book "Montana 1948" shows us how people can be very dishonest and shows us that certain people will choose what they want to see and what they want to forget about. It shows us that trust is a powerful tool. Should you trust people though? If you lived in Montana the answer would be no. ... Frank, Wesley, Gloria, David and Julian Hayden are all examples of the trust issues that echoed through the small town of Montana in the summer of 1948. Frank Hayden, Brother of Wesley Hayden and uncle of 12 year old David Hayden, was known as a war hero, a high school and college athlete ... a hero be...

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• Grade Level: High School

Montana 1948, a novel written by Larry Watson and published in 1993, describes an embarrassing recollection of David Hayden happened in a small town called Bentrock. The story mainly concentrates on a dilemma between loyalty ... power existed in a family or a society will definitely lead to an authoritarian control, which will negatively affects the whole system by making inefficient decisions. And the most critical lesson of Montana 1948 is, we should always be vigilant of the danger an over-concentrated power may bring us....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate