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

The Rural Way of Life in The River Warren   Anyone who has taken a trip across the midwestern states has seen a divergent way of invigoration. The River Warren gave the readers a sense of this rural way of life around the Two-Speed semi crash. Corn, wheat, and other agricultural products can be seen for miles and miles in tout ensemble directions. As you drive through, you can see farmers hard at work, combines, tractors, and bailers all on the job(p) at full speed, sun up to sun down. It doesnt take tenacious too 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 enquire can become very complicated. When one sells any product, economics is the dominant factor with regards to price and the quantity of ones particular product. Many external factors play a huge role in the supply and demand of farm products. The focus of this paper is to explore some of the factors th at make farming such a hard, vapourisable 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 express his fathers capacity for work grated on him (76). This family was always forced 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 feeding the cattle (76). Growing up in this setting meant work at a young age for the children. Jeff and his younger brother, Chris, ar not exceptions. In the story, Chris is killed in a farming accident. Chriss youth and his inexperience with farm equipment were outweighed by the holds of the farm. Unfortunately, this kind of tragedy happens in real life as well. The book describes this way of life in many section s but never answered why life was like this. Why this much work was need 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.