Spring Victory Book Report Finding main idea The main idea of the short story is about a boy and his family. They have a very hard winter, their father is sick in bed from a flu. They had a bad harvest this autumn, and have almost nothing to eat. They are striving to survive; the mother decides to make baskets. The main character then sells them in town. First it isn't successful, but then everybody …showed first 75 words of 941 total…

…showed last 75 words of 941 total…author's purpose for writing this short story is I think to tell of some childhood experience that he had before. It was to tell a story similar to his family's, and the small boy - narrator, was probably him in the real life. He probably also wanted the story to be interesting, and at the same time, something from his life. So he took a part of his life and changed it into a story.