Oscar
By Art by Alana-Jain Feder, Age 11
After a fire burns his family farm and orchard their livelihood Oscar and his siblings must find work
“Come on!” Oscar yelled to his younger brother, Finn. Finn ran to catch up. “Of all the fires in the world, why did one have to come here?” Oscar complained.
“I don’t know,” replied Finn, skipping along.
Finn was seven and did not like to work hard. He preferred fishing with Oscar in the river nearby.
Oscar sighed and looked around. His family’s farm and apple orchard had been burned by a forest fire. Luckily, the rain came before the barn, animals, and house had been lost. About ninety percent of the food they needed to survive the winter had been destroyed, and all of their apples were gone. They had none left to sell. A lot of the trees on the Ozark Mountains near their farm had also burned.