Later, they figure out who was painting their house, Trot, the one-armed Hill person. He then witnesses Cowboy killing Hank with his switchblade and stealing his money. Spruill, the head hill person, tell Hank that he needs to hitchhike home because he was causing too many problems. He doesn't know what they're doing, but he thinks they're kissing. Then, one day he sees Tally and Cowboy, one of the Mexicans, Hiding in the rows of cotton. Luke Chandler, the seven year old main character, gets a crush on a hill girl named Tally. He then decided that he didn't need to pick cotton as much, because he didn't need the money. He ends up hurting Samson and earning himself $250. A guy named Samson, the best wrestler all the way from Egypt, comes and says, "If you can stay in the ring with me for 60 seconds, I will give you ten times your bet." He throws a whole bunch of people out of the ring, until Hank comes. Hank then goes to a carnival and decides to take a bet. He kills one of the kids, but it was a three-on-one. He gets in a fight one Saturday behind a store. The Mexicans and the Hill People come to pick for money. Set in the late summer and early fall of 1952, its story is told through the eyes of seven-year-old Luke Chandler, the youngest in a. Inspired by his childhood in Arkansas, it is Grishams first major work outside the legal thriller genre in which he established himself. The harvest comes and it's time to pick cotton. A Painted House is a February 2001 novel by American author John Grisham. A Painted House is the story of a young boy living in Arkansas in 1952.
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