Chapter 7 Summary

Everyone in town knows Tiny Fran is pregnant, even though she and her parents try to keep it hidden. Lonnie Hoover, Tiny Fran's father, could send her away to have the baby or pay for an abortion. Instead, Lonnie decides to get Tiny Fran married, knowing she will more than likely get herself into trouble again at some later date. So Lonnie goes to Burr, another tenant farmer on his land and offers him a parcel of land if he will marry Tiny Fran. Burr agrees right away because owning the land he and his father have worked is a dream Burr cannot refuse. Land is all that really matters to a man.

Jack has always hoped that he would come to own the land he and his father have always worked as well. Jack thought that when Lonnie died ten years earlier...