How Long to Read Mill Creek
By Omar Eby
How Long Does it Take to Read Mill Creek?
It takes the average reader 4 hours and 46 minutes to read Mill Creek by Omar Eby
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Description
Mill Creek tells the story of the age-old struggle of an adolescent’s attempts to understand himself and his world. Peter Martin, the brainy, shy, farm-boy narrator, pious beyond his years, fi ghts a private war: whether to remain with his strict farm people or whether to embrace his best friend’s anarchic approach to Mennonite life. Arthur Nyce, with his fl ashy clothes, his repertoire of pop tunes, his dereliction of a school’s prescribed piety and his open affection throws Peter off balance again and again. Mill Creek records Peter’s fl uctuations between accepting and denying the diverse aspects of these two approaches to Mennonite life. An almost amorous friendship, the threat of the draft (Korean War), the lure of art, a pregnancy and a tragic drowning aid Peter to make compromising moves to pay tribute to his friend Arthur. In the end, Peter resolves to fi nd a way out of what he has come to understand as the religious oppression of his own community. Set on the campus of a boarding school, this wry, affectionate depiction of two boys’ struggles towards adulthood illuminates the golden era of conservative Lancaster (PA) Mennonites in the early 1950s. The youth in Mill Creek are pious, sentimental and romantic. They blend a serious intent to imitate their stolid elders and to mock lightly without fully discarding their heritage. Tender and passionate, innocent and sentimental, rigid and heartbreaking, the novel is a requiem for joy.
How long is Mill Creek?
Mill Creek by Omar Eby is 283 pages long, and a total of 71,599 words.
This makes it 96% the length of the average book. It also has 88% more words than the average book.
How Long Does it Take to Read Mill Creek Aloud?
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 31 minutes to read Mill Creek aloud.
What Reading Level is Mill Creek?
Mill Creek is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.
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