1. Jim defines happiness in Book 1, Section II as “... When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.”

In Book 1, Section II it mentions in the beginning “I do not remember the arrival at my grandmother’s farm sometime before daybreak, after a drive nearly twenty miles with heavy work- horses. When I awake, it was afternoon. I was lying in a little room, scarcely bigger than the bed that had held him and the window-shade at his head was flapping softly in a warm wind.” Jim described his grandmother “A tall woman, with wrinkled brown skin and black hair, stood looking down at me; I knew that she must be my grandmother.”

Jimmy’s grandmother had been crying, he could see, but when he opened his eyes she smiled, peered at him fearfully and sat …show more content…
Grandfather put on silver-rimmed spectacles and read several Psalms. His voice was so sympathetic and he read so interestingly that I wished he had wished one of Jim’s favorite chapters in the Book of Kings. I was awed by his intonation of the word “Selah.” He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.” Jim had no clue what the word meant; perhaps he had not. But, as Jim grandfather uttered it, it became unclear, the most spiritual of words. Early the next morning Jim ran out of doors to discover about him. Jim was informed that theirs was the only wooden home west of Black Hawk- until people arrived to the Norwegian agreement, where there were several. There white frame house; with a tale and half- story above the basement, stood at the east end of what I might call from the farmyard, with the windmill close by the kitchen door. From the windmill the ground sloped westward, downward to the barns and granaries and pig-yards. Beyond the corncribs, at the base of the shallow draw, was a swampy little pond, with rusty willow bushes flourishing about it. The road from the post-office arrived directly