The point here is that hes the clear Alpha among some street toughs in Harlem, and this Alpha like New Yorkers Duchess and Woolly similarly found his way to Salina. Of course, Towles is drawn to that one in a thousand. Finally, in 1954 the road culture of modern American was about to begin. The Lincoln Highway Character List These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. Billy is determined to follow the Lincoln Highway west to San Francisco, where he hopes to find his mother, who abandoned her family when he was a baby and Emmett was 8. I see the Lincoln Highway as a metaphorical journey for each of us to travel as we work towards our ambitions or our dreams. So, not only could Duchess have seen them, together they provide us a revealing window into the America of 1954: a country still romanticizing the West, already mythologizing the Second World War, and beginning to grapple with a new generation of wild youth. Because I have a detailed outline in place, when Im starting a chapter I dont have to wonder what the setting or key events are going to be. AKA: Woolly. Who were the people in your life that most influenced your character and helped you learn what is right and wrong? As previously mentioned, Emmett returns from Salina to a farm that is being foreclosed on. The punch wasnt a killer, but the freak way in which the punchs recipient landed resulted in him dying, and the rather innocent and good Emmett being sent to Salina. Then say hello to New York. At no point in prior history did teenagers anywhere in the world have an effective means by which they could share their perspectives with each other. I only remember being struckmore than a decade agoby the notion of an honorable young man being driven home from a juvenile work program to the family farm only to discover that two of his fellow inmates have stowed away in the wardens car. Perhaps counter-intuitively, one of the reasons I outline with such care is to free up my imagination while Im writing the book. But when I was about halfway through writing the first draft, I became frustrated. (Billy has been ably taken care of by a neighbor's hard-working daughter, Sally, during Emmett's absence; she's another terrific character.) Each of the main characters are at a crossroads of sorts and in a way, the Lincoln Highway serves as a getaway from their current, somewhat bleak situation. It didnt ring true. Its a sentimental as well as practical choice, home to his mother, who left the family years earlier, sending back postcards from locales along the Lincoln Highway during her journey west. (Add a little more chicken broth as necessary, if the sauce is drying out.) The Lincoln Highway is a joyride. Thats why after writing Rules of Civilitywhich describes a year in the life of a youngwoman about to climb New Yorks socioeconomicladderI was eager to write A Gentleman in Moscowwhich describes three decades in the life of a Russian aristocrat whos just lost everything. This is a BETA experience. More on the Lincoln Highway in a bit, but Billy concludes that their mother took this route based on postcards she sent the kids after leaving, but that their father did not share with them while alive. . While Im writing my first draft, I dont share my work. As young adults go off to college, enter careers, and get married, their focus shifts away from the household in which they were raised toward a world that they must shape for themselves. Abacus Abernathe, the author of Billys beloved compendium, is found on the 55th floor of the Empire State Building and coaxed from his narrative perch back into the world. I suppose thats because they have such strong and vocal personalities. 1954 saw the release of the first two hits of the Rock & Roll era: Shake, Rattle, and Roll by Big Joe Turner and Rock around the Clock by Bill Hailey and the Comets. AKA: Woolly. As a novelist and a reader, Im very interested in the role that structure plays in story-telling. Emmet Watson has been released from a juvenile detention facility where he was serving one and a half years sentence due to manslaughter. While Im writing chapters, I am constantly revising the back half of the outline or adding to it, as I gain a better understanding of my story. When Emmett explained to his younger brother why he was going to the facility, Billy advised him the next time he felt angry enough to hit someone that he count to ten first as a way to control his anger. So I hope that the following resources, character list, timeline and thematic topics will help you on your own journey deeper into the novel and its connections to your life. The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson Two Steps Forward by Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist More The Lincoln Highway reviews ' The Lincoln Highway is a joyride delightful tour de force .. There's so much to enjoy in this generous novel packed with fantastic characters' - NPR.org How do you think the expectations set for each of the characters played out in the choices that each makes especially at the end of the novel? The faculty representative at Woolly's school. When you finished A Gentleman in Moscow, why did you choose to write The Lincoln Highway next? This bit of history is eye-opening, and highly relevant in an economic sense. THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY Book Club Questions. Again, one of the ideas Towles explores is how evil can be offset by decency and kindness on any rung of the socio-economic ladder. At the same time, theres so much within the novel that reads as trite, out of place, and untrue. After dwelling for days on the drafts shortcomings to no avail, I suddenly realized that the book wasnt simply a story told over the course of ten days, it was a countdown. Me, I love surprises but some people just dont like being caught off guard, even by good news. chapter Ten Duchess. Emmetts plan is to pack Billy and very few belongings into a Studebaker hed purchased with the proceeds from his work as a carpenters apprentice before Salina. Think about it. I suppose its worth noting that Duchess isnt angry with Emmett in the last chapter because he recognizes the ingenuity of what Emmett has done, and he knows his own culpability in the final outcome. The battle for civil rights in America is as old as the Union itself, but in 1954, the modern civil rights movement was about to begin. For kindness begins where necessity ends. chapter Nine Sally. His mother is long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett intends to pick up his eight-year-old brother and head west where they . Were Duchess and Woolly on the road now, they could gain easy access to hundreds of stations without regard to location thanks to Sirius/XM. Now that the book is done, its hard for me to imagine it could ever have been told from the perspectives of just Emmett and Duchess. No doubt George H.W. Bookfinity has a video interview with Towles that again talks about his writing process and reflecting on what the story is after he completes the first draft. Generally, I will revise the book from beginning to end at least twice before it reaches the reader. Though dark shadows fall across its final chapters, the book is permeated with light, wit, youth. Out of the same mouth that utters deign, electorate, visage to visage, and each one of us has come from disparate parts, comes old-time street-isms like right in the kisser, along with an easy ability to beat people to the point hospitalization and death, an easy rapport with ladies of the night, and a streetwise nature that has little to do with words like deign. And oh yes, Duchess is also an incomparable cook capable of whipping up fettucine mia amore when not settling scores meant to balance debits and credits. When I conceived of the story, I had no idea that it existed. Seeing this at a library in Morgen, Emmett properly deduced that more people would mean more demand for the houses that he intended to rehab with an eye on selling. What does this all mean? Emmett's co-prisoner. Lincoln Highway vuonna Delaware oli nimitys, joka oli olemassa 1910-1938, alkaen siit Maryland rajalla lnteen Newark on Pennsylvanian rajalla Claymont Poiketen Newark Wilmington. The Lincoln Highway is a joyride. But at any age, it's the young-at-heart who are most open to amazement people like Woolly, who may not be cut out for this world but who can appreciate what he calls a "one-of-a-kind of day.". The Studebaker company, now known as a long-lasting and iconic automotive manufacturer, was founded in South Bend, Indiana in 1852. (In another fun connection for Towles nerds, nave trust funder Wallace "Woolly" Wolcott Martin is the nephew of Wallace Wolcott from Rules of Civility.). When children are young, the nuclear family is a very tight unit (even when its dysfunctional). Woolly observes, When you put it altogether just like that with the beginning at the beginning, the middle in the middle and the end at the end, there is no denying that today was a one of a kind, kind of day. chapter Two, Woolly. Why is the dialogue in the book indicated by em dashes rather than quotation marks? Where have sons had to work through the role their father played in their upbringing to create their own life? The Lincoln Highway is a journey in multiple layers the escapades of a road trip, coming of age passages and a storytelling odyssey. But heres my take, for those who want it: As Billy is cleaning the library, Emmett has placed Duchess in the boat and set him adrift in order to buy himself some time. As with Zenos arrow, contemplated by Emmett at one point, the novels many journeys are infinitely bisected. Distance is subdivided and arrival deferred. I also think it resulted in exchanges with a sharper delivery and quicker pace. The Lincoln Highway is, among other things, about the act of storytelling and mythmaking. About the ads that Woolly cant get enough of, Duchess described them as pitches from businesses promising consumers that their products would remove the lumps from their life. Yes. The book was feeling unwieldy, with sections that were cumbersome, slow, or off track. But Im also adapting to surprises that surface from the work. The Wolcotts camp in the Adirondacks also figures prominently in Rules of Civility as the retreat where Katey goes to meet Tinker in seclusion. Does part of our ethos come to us in the form of stories, whether handed down or read in books? It was in December 1953 that Hugh Heffner published the first issue of Playboy with an old nude of Marilyn Monroe serving as its centerfoldlaunching a new era of publicly acceptable pornography. Yet at one point in a discussion about Duchess with Emmett, Townhouse observes that he is like one of those guys who are born with no peripheral vision. A good description of Duchess for sure, but the words of someone whod spent time at a juvenile work camp? How was the Lincoln Highway initially constructed? Towles' new novel ranges further geographically from Nebraska's farmland to New York's Adirondacks by way of some of New York City's iconic sites but its action-packed plot is compressed into just 10 days. In those first ten years of television many of the lasting formats and idioms of the medium were defined from the evening news broadcast to the sitcom and from the soap opera to the late-night talk show. In a letter to Emmett, his father quotes Emerson, There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. Applied to the Lincoln Highway, Towles writes that Carl G. Fisher built the first sections in 1913 with the help of donations from prosperous individuals like Teddy Roosevelt and Thomas Edison. The nun at the foster home where Duchess lived. Emmett ultimately concludes that his father came from a family like Woollys. The novel begins on June 12, 1954 and ends on the same date, clearly not coincidentally, as A Gentleman in Moscow. Trite utterances were everywhere. Trained as a carpenter, Emmett seeks a destination with a rapidly growing population where he can make a living flipping houses. AKA: Duchess. After a morning spent in the library with the Encyclopaedia Britannica its 1954 he decides that California is the more promising place. Emmett lost control of his anger and hit him so hard that he fell backward and struck his head on a concrete block. The American Roads web site features information and resources related to finding and traveling America's scenic and historic old highways. There's so much to enjoy in this generous novel packed with fantastic characters male and female, black and white, rich and poor and filled with digressions, magic tricks, sorry sagas, retributions, and the messy business of balancing accounts. Indeed, a reader might very well be fooled into thinking that Towles is setting off westward, ho-hum along the deeply rutted tracks of our national lore. He factors prominently in the story, but thats really not the point. Almost immediately, the Lincoln Highway reinforced or reshaped a number of the books themes and events. THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY Characters - Alphabetical FIRST NAME: LAST NAME: DESCRIPTION: Honest: Abe: Abraham Lincoln's alias. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. In the case of The Lincoln Highway, I have no idea where I was or what I was doing. My process for writing The Lincoln Highway was very similar to my process for writing my other books. For what is kindness but the performance of an act that is both beneficial to another and unrequired? Attentive readers of my work will recognize this watch as the very one that appears in Rules of Civility. The Lincoln Highway is a character-driven tale that is and pulled along through narratives of each major individual in the story. While Charles Watson was a failed farmer whose yearly harvests were routinely imperiled by the vagaries of nature, Emmett chose work in the town before Salina; figuratively very far from the farm. Billy dreams of his house in California for himself and Emmett and finding his mom. AKA: Duchess. California, here we come. Rock & Roll was an art form created and performed by young people for young people with their own experiences, hopes, and complaints as its principle subject matter. As so many do in real life, she was looking to shift the blame for her declining situation to others only for a grizzled, one-time character to tell her something along the lines of Ive never seen anyone at the pawn shop because of what others did.. Girlswas a semi-popular HBO television production that aired from 2012-2017. Note that this guide, like all of the guides, may contain spoilers. Serves four. That Towless background is finance certainly makes it possible that he was making economic or political statements, but at the same time the book is neither outwardly economic nor political. Imagine if houses were so sturdy as to not have their integrity undermined by weather and use? In fact, over 10 days and 500 pages, they travel about as far away from California as is possible in the continental United States. Emmets mother had left the family eight years prior, and his fathers untimely death from cancer secured Emmett an early release. As I was reviewing them, I was amazed by a story on June 14th announcing that all activity in New York City would stop for ten minutes on the following day as part of a nuclear attack simulation. But once I was writing, the voices of the others characters began to assert themselves, making their own claim on the narrative, insisting that their points of view be heard. Particularly, Emmett and Billy. What the worthy endeavor requires is planning, effort, attentiveness and the willingness to clean up. chapter Nine Sally. In that novel, when Wallace is getting ready to leave New York for the Spanish Civil War in the summer of 1938, he and Katey gather together Christmas presents for his family to be delivered in December. Its very enjoyable. Though Texas presently outpaces California in population growth (the statistics can be misleading, but thats another column), the Golden State was well outpacing the Lone Star state in the first half of the 20thcentury. He imagines driving the Lincoln Highway and heading west with Billy and Emmett and Woolly to fulfill his dream. What do you aspire to in telling your story and having your story told after your life ends? As mentioned, I couldnt put it down. Amor Towles' new Great American Road Novel tails four boys three 18-year-olds who met in a juvenile reformatory, plus a brainy 8-year-old as they set out from Nebraska in June, 1954, in an old Studebaker in pursuit of a better future. I recommend reading the book before the guide. Expectations are repeatedly upended. Mr. Cunningham's grandfather. Escaped prisoner. Duchess asks why people born with money are always the ones who say the word like its in a foreign language? His point was that those born with it in his experience are often the least likely to open their wallets when bills come. His first novel, Rules of Civility (2011), set among social strivers in New York City in 1936, took its inspiration from F. Scott Fitzgerald and its title from George Washington's Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation. He is a troubled character, and after his last attempt of getting what he thinks belongs to him from the safe of his great-grandfather ends up a failure, he sees no further hope in life. Billy has a plan too, a journey mapped by a mysterious . I guess some people are like that when it comes to surprises. When do you prefer every-day days? Because those who are given something of value without having to earn it are bound to squander it. I believe that one should earn respect, one should earn trust, one should earn the love of a woman and the right to call oneself a man and one should also earn the right to hope. chapter Four, Woolly. Amor Towles is well known for his distinct historical novels that offer tantalizing glimpses into the lives of larger-than-life characters from the past. Add the tomato sauce, chicken broth, oregano and pepper flakes, stir and let simmer another ten minutes. Everyone inHighwayis abnormally perceptive, well read, and talented, including those at Salina. California it would be. Thoughtco provides a brief timeilne of the 1950s that helps frame what had and hadnt occurred by the time the four travelers set out on their journey in June of 1954. In the decade that followed would come Rosa Parkss refusal to give up her bus seat and the resulting Montgomery Bus Boycott led by Martin Luther King (1955), the lunch counter protests (1960), the Freedom Riders (1961), the March on Washington (1963), and countless other public actions culminating in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. When a young person sets out on their own, they will inevitably have to solidify some personal ethos by which they are going to live. Amor Towles talks at length in his interviews about the historical placement of this tale, in particular the events that are soon to occur desegregation, the advent of the birth control pill and rock and roll coming to the stage. While doing so, Woolly explains that the watchs dial is black and numbers white (in an inversion of the typical watch face), so that the dial would be less likely to attract the eye of snipers. This rates mention as a way of wondering: is Towles making a comment on the abject, frequently left-wing stupidity exhibited by the children of the actual wealth creators, or did the shapely daughter of an industrialist whod gone socialist given him the story he needed to bring FitzWilliam into the failed orbit of Duchesss father? Tirzah Price 2022-07-29. He is the type of person who provides nuanced ethical reasoning before striking someone in the skull with a two-by-four or a frying pan. After you claim a section youll have 24 hours to send in a draft. After he breaks in through a window to deliver strawberry preserves to the orphans, he steals Emmetts Studebaker and, with Woolly, commences escapade. Do you find a need to ensure everyone gets their just desserts, something like Duchess going after the bystander in the cowboy hat? will review the submission and either publish your submission or providefeedback. What a question? On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, initiating the end of legal segregation and the concept of separate but equal, at least on paper. So, I went back to the beginning and began revisinghaving renamed the sections as Ten, Nine, Eight, and so on. For an answer to this question, please see the question in the Q&A above that discusses the books shifting points of view. refrigerated boxcars in America. Escaped prisoner. I find this moment in American history fascinating, but less for what was happening than for what was about to happen. FitzWilliam had at one time lived on 5thAvenue thanks to the willingness of people in Manhattan with van in their name to pay any amount in order to secure his services as Santa Claus during the Christmas season. The connections to you? Imagine he had even more side stories than were in the final published novel! While many blurbs of this novel focus on Emmett Watson, the. The manner in which it is presented, through the varying viewpoints, enables readers to gain a fuller perspective of what is actually happening, and it adds to the compelling nature of story. They were serving time at Salina with Emmett, and theyd climbed into Warden Williamss trunk ahead of him driving Emmett home. At the beginning of the novel, Emmett is being released from a juvenile facility to which he was committed after he unintentionally killed a boy his own age. You may opt-out by. Or before driving a stolen car to Harlem to demand a beating from a man he once wronged at the work farm. There were also words that read as very out of place, or not of 1954. The largest operator of In 1954, the sexual revolution was about to begin. The man who was convicted for a crime he didn't commit. The President of Lion's Club. What are the traits you see in others that you view as kindness? How do you think these two reflections played into Woollys choice at the end of the novel? Book: The Lincoln HighwayAuthor: Amor TowlesEdition: Audible, Penguin Random House. Emmett has no interest in what his former barrack mates have cooked up, but novels wouldnt be novels if everything went as planned. Emmett has big reasons to leave the state, and a plan. Emmett will buy one house, rehab it only to sell it at a profit, then buy two houses with an eye on fixing both only to sell one while living in the other. What do you consider an heroic act? Join us for a discussion of The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles. [ Read an excerpt from The Lincoln Highway. ]. Duchess attributes his moral code to a lesson Sister Agnes told the orphans. Eagerness to discover what landed these three disparate musketeers in custody is one of many things that keeps us turning pages. With the Korean War having concluded in July 1953, America was at peace in 1954; but the countrys entanglement in the Vietnam War was about to begin. The show could be very crude, and your religion didnt have to lean Pentecostal for you to feel that way. Amor Towles ' new Great American Road Novel tails four boys three 18-year-olds who met in a juvenile reformatory, plus a brainy 8-year-old as they set out. There are multiple words and phrases throughout the book which Woolly alters, such as absotively or in the muddle or an undersight. Bychangingthe setting, the era, and the cast of characters, I also must change thenarratives perspective, tone, and poetics so thatthey will be true to these peoplein this situation at this moment in time. Where do you see the influences of fathers upon their sons? Having witnessed his fathers ineptitude that was exacerbated by nature, he chose carpentry work that welcomed the extremes of nature. While schizophrenic weather was the enemy of the farmer, and weather extremes potentially bankrupting, these natural forces were the friend of carpenters and builders because they slowly but inevitably undermined the integrity of the house. So true, but in reading this I found myself wondering what 19thcentury French political economist Fredric Bastiat would say about Emmetts assessment. To that end, when I was finished writing the first draft of The Lincoln Highway, I decided to look at the front pages of the New York Times for the ten days on which my story takes place: June 12 to June 21, 1954. When do you prefer one-of-a-kind days? Set in that same month, " The Lincoln Highway " charts the cross-country adventures of four boys: Emmett Watson, an 18-year-old Nebraskan farm kid just released from a Kansas juvenile detention. AKA: Professor Abercrombie, Sam. AKA: Professor Abercrombie, Sam. Similarly, by changing the duration of the talefrom a year to thirty years to ten daysthe structure, pacing, and scope of thematic discovery all have to change. Someone to question some of what jumped out to yours truly as trite, out of place, and untrue. The examples are many, and they weakened the book. The Lincoln Highway: About the Book Click the image to expand A #1 New York Times Best Seller In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. How did the community in which you were raised guide who you became? Heres the recipe: In a reasonably deep saucepan, cook the onions in the olive oil until soft and translucent, then set the onions aside. Travel down the Lincoln Highway, the National Old Trails Road, or the Old Spanish Trail. Emmetts father came from wealth and he left the, Puritan tradition of finding favor in the eyes of the lord by leaving more to their children than had been left to them. chapter Ten Emmett. 1954 was the year that both McDonalds and Burger King were launched. Woolly has been deemed unfit to receive a large family trust, and Duchess and Woolly have in mind an escapade to the Adirondacks to retrieve the money from the wall safe of a family home. When have you had to right your own wrongs? Add back the onions, the white wine, and let simmer for a few minutes. When I turned to the front page for June 15th to see what had happened, there was a photograph of Times Square all but abandoned. Emmett's co-prisoner. Along the way, they all meet a variety of characters some of them very Mark-Twain-like: the sinister, self-styled preacher Pastor John; a third-rate vaudeville performer named Fitzy. But the revolution would really take off when the Pill was approved in 1961, giving women and men the ability to engage in sexual activity with less concern over long term repercussions. I see the Lincoln Highway as a metaphorical journey for each of us to travel as we work towards our ambitions or our dreams. Written by people who wish to remain anonymous Emmett Watson Emmett Watson is the main character in the novel. More books than SparkNotes. Pour off most, but not all of the bacon fat. Each one of them, Towles implies, is the central protagonist of an ongoing adventure that is both unique and universal. As it turns out, not reaching the intended destination becomes entirely the point and power of this mischievous, wise and wildly entertaining novel. It doesnt matter that his plan is lawful, well conceived, well researched. It thrives because it doesnt. Billy befriends a Black veteran named Ulysses who has been riding trains for years since returning from the war, his homecoming persistently deferred. Did you get a different nuance of a scene by seeing it from various points of view? The Question and Answer section for The Lincoln Highway is a great What do you think? It cannot be stressed enough that seemingly everyone from Salina in the novel is there because of something someone else did, and these same individuals all talk as though they sat alongside Woolly at St. Pauls. Warden Williams tells Emmett you have your whole life ahead of you more than once, neighboring farmer Ed Ransom has known Emmett since the day he was born. Emmett was made a hearty breakfast, and then the night before Emmetts depressed mother left the family, the family actually had a wonderful time at a fireworks show in Seward, Nebraska. 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