Chapter 7 Summary and Analysis

Chapter 7. By August, Melony has been travelling to all of the apple orchards in Maine she can find, looking for Homer. When she reaches York Farm, the foreman sees that Melony picks apples so well he tells her to come back in three weeks when the season starts so she can work for him. Melony declines and walks away. As she walks past the orchard fields, two men working get in their truck and run after her. Melony beats one of them up with her fists and feet and the other with the buckle end of the man's belt. She takes their truck back to where the foreman in is and blackmails him into giving her a place to stay in the cider house, so she can work and try to find out from the other pickers where Ocean View Orchards...