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The wilsons are what you would call a typical 1950s american family. They
consist of the father and husband Frank, housewife linda, oldest child Tommy
age 17, Cheryl age 16, Mikey age 10, and Suzie age 8. Thay are a white middle
class family that lives in the suburb autside little rock, Arkansas. The
neighborhood was modled after Levittown, a famous sururb community outside of
New York.
Right now it's monday morning and the wilsons are starting off their week.
"Breakfast is ready", yells linda. She has just prepared pancakes,
sausages, and orange juice for her whole family. Also, she just finished
ironing her husband's dress shirt for work. On her way back to the kitchen, she
recieves a huge kiss from her husband, seeing as she felt her identity was
riding on him; since she never managed to finish college.
"Oh Mother, the food smells so good!", suzie enthusiastically bellows
in excitement. They all sit sit down and happily eat their foos together, while
linda goes around and serving them seconds, pouring them juice and cofee, and
washing some disshes. Tommy and sheryl finish and are ready to go to school,
Central High. "Bye mom and dad, we love you" they both say. "We
love you too kids, have a fun day" they replied back Tommy and cheryl
getbin the car, and tommy drives them to school. Frank had jus gotten the car
from the dealer. It was a 1958 chevelle, with all the luxuries. Frank Wilson
could afford it, since he was an executive workng with a prestigious farming
products factory; where he worked for the animal feed division. The bank was
more than happy to lend him the money for the car, seeing that his job with the
factory was stable, the farming industry was growing and he qualified perfectly
as an average middle class white man. He was no different that any of his
coworkers.
"Jailhouse Rock is really good... By elvis right?" Asks tommy
"Why yes!" says cheryl. The tune was blasting on a radical radio
station playing rock music. It was 1957, the year of the little rock nine.
Tommy and Cheryl were rather neutral towards segregation, they had good moral
values. They had heard about the incident earlier that year, but they didn't
pay any attention to it.
Furthermore, Cheryl brought her slynky along to school. She was one of the
first to have a slynky in her group of frineds. It was their favorite passtime.
According to Cheryl, it would be the new Barbie doll, but she was to old for
dolls. Tommy had a surge of courage and decided to ask Marie out, on a date. He
told her that they would go to the Drive-In that had just opened outside of
town. A John Wayne double feature was playing, that's all tommy cared about. He
really liked westerns, since he always satdown and watched it with his dad on
TV. The television set was new at the house too. The older model they had burnt
out a few months back. Frank decide to get another one just as soon as the
neighbors got theirs. It was also a growing passtime in the 50s.
Thay day in school saw the beginning of a polio vaccination campaing led by the
county hospital. It was a huge threat all around the US, so the campain proved
to be succesful in that area. Tommy and cheryl didn't really care since they
already had a shot a few months back. Nevertheless, they were in awe after
seeing the endless line for vaccination.
By the end of the school day Tommy had a date for friday with Marie and Cheryl
had learned how to wash dishes and bake muffins all at the same time. On the
way back home they listened to the new Rock'n roll station earlier mentioned.
It was playing James Brown. The station broke a lot of boundries set by society
in playing Rock'n Roll, seeing as the adults despised the music genre