The Rural Way of Life in The River Warren :: warren

The hobnailed Way of Life in The River Warren   Any sensation who has taken a spark across the midwestern states has seen a different way of life. The River Warren gave the readers a sense of this rural way of life around the Two-Speed semi crash. Corn, wheat, and separate agricultural products can be seen for miles and miles in all directions. As you grounds through, you can see developers hard at work, combines, tractors, and bailers all working at full speed, sun up to sun down. It doesnt take long as well as see how much these farms must work in order to survive. why must these farmers devote so much of their lives to the profession? The answer to this question can become very complicated. When one sells any product, economics is the controlling factor with regards to price and the quantity of ones particular product. Many external factors knead a huge role in the supply and demand of farm products. The focus of this paper is to explore some of the fact ors that make farming such(prenominal) a hard, volatile business.   In the book, the Gruber family is a good example of a small farming family. Leo is the head of the household and, therefore, spends all or most of his time working on the farm. Jeff Gruber, Leos son, speaks of his fathers work in one passage. Leo stated his fathers capacity for work grated on him (76). This family was always obligate to work. At night, the tractor-trailer would come to load cattle. Jeff stated the days were full of plowing, discing, harrowing, planting, cultivating, harvesting, and eating the cattle (76). Growing up in this setting meant work at a young age for the children. Jeff and his younger brother, Chris, are not exceptions. In the story, Chris is killed in a farming accident. Chriss youth and his inexperience with farm equipment were outweighed by the studys of the farm. Unfortunately, this kind of tragedy happens in real life as well. The book describes this way of life in many sections but never answered why life was like this. Why this much work was motif was never answered. Now we will explore this question.   First thing we need to look at are some of the external factors that apply to the family farm.