Question

Read and Answer please:

Answer 1

1. The first paragraph describes him as being "in the Florida scrub." The reader can assume from the word scrub that the MacIvey family did not live in an easy environment. If the narrator had said farmland, one might assume that they at least had a decent garden crop and animals. 
2. The MacIvey family faced problems from poor soil quality and harsh winter cold and rain to wild animals such as panthers, rattlesnakes, and pesky mosquitoes.They also lost their source of milk and butter in a panther attack.
3. The MacIvey's learned to survive by using the resources available to them. They used various plants and trees to make a shelter, furniture, and other household items. They found other options for food like cat tail roots for flour and honey for sugar. Even though their garden was not plentiful it still produced some vegetables they could can for the winter. They also relied on hunting for meat and trading in the animal pelts for lamp oil.
4. The end states that Tobias would one day get another milk cow and protect her this time. I believe that he will eventually be able to get his milk cow and there will be a situation where he will need to protect her from panthers.

Answer 2

had been in the Florida scrub for five years. He had come south out of Georgia in 1858. In his horse-drawn wagon there was a sack of corn and a sack of sweet potatoes, a few packets of seeds, a shotgun and a few shells, a frying pan, several pewter dishes and forks, and a cast-iron pot. There were also the tools he would need to clear the land and build a house: two chopping axes, a broadaxe, foot adz, crosscut saw, aud.d