For Appalachia people, in that time period, it was good to have livestock of any kind, they needed a calf to grow up into a cow so they would have milk for the human baby to feed. One of the most important needs of having a cow in that time period was to have sustenance for family/baby. As we saw in the novel River of Earth, the cow would’ve been very significant since it would have been the main source of nutrition for the family and more essentially for the baby, as mother said “if we had us a cow her udder would be tick-tight…. It would be a sight the milk and butter we’d get” (Still’s 50). Alpha (mother) was saying that because the baby wouldn’t go hungry and would have nutrition if they had a milk. There was not that much of a conversation about the cow, in general, over the novel. How Baldridge’s family went from not having a …show more content…
We know this because as our narrator vividly describe “calf fell back weakly, though beginning to breathe again” (Still’s 65). Saul Hignight leaves the calf after bringing it to the Baldrige’s because he might have thought that calf was dead. Even though calf wasn’t their own, but they saved it because it was about to die. However, later he came to find out that calf isn’t dead and took back to his house. I strongly believe that if Saul had left the calf to the Baldrige’s family than the terrible thing that happened to the family, green being dead, family not having enough nutritious food as such, could have been avoided. One of the example that hints at baby being alive if the calf was, still Baldrige’s own is Alpha saying “If Saul Hignight hadn’t laid claim to the heifer (calf), we’d had mild and butter too. The baby might o’ lived” (Still’s 170). That shows that they (narrator’s family) would have grown calf into cow and baby might have survived because of milk and
Weisiger’s narrative explains the relationship of “livestock grazing, environmental change, cultural identity, gender, and memory during the New Deal era of the 1930s and its aftermath” (p xv). Weisiger relies on oral histories, environmental science, and government documents. Weisiger begins by discussing the debate about the Stock Reduction Program from 1933-1934. She goes on then to detail the importance of livestock to Navajo cultural identity and way of life. Weisiger writes, “Dine knew nature not only through their connections with the physical environment but also
Farm life of the 1930s was really hard for all the farmers. They did lots to get through the 1930s without starving. In York county they didn’t indoor bathrooms, light or, heat unlike the people who lived in the towns of the 1930s.(Reinhardt n. pag.) to feed there family’s many raised their own food like chicken which gave them eggs, cows which also gave them beef and milk to drink. They grew vegetables for there from there garden. (Reinhardt n. pag.)Which families didn’t do it alone they had help from there neighbors to help them along the way.
Hasheider, Philip. How to Raise Cattle: Everything You Need to Know. St. Paul: Voyageur, 2007. Print.
A farmer who only had enough land to support his family. The land contained servants and some family
Farmers had a lot of land but little tools to make it easier to get their livestock from one side to other. They used this breed to herd cows, sheep's, goats,
Frontier life was difficult for Molly’s family because they had to be self-sufficient of all the jobs to do such as feeding the horses, harvesting the farm, cooking the food, feeding the cows, making tools and clothes, and planting seeds.
Analysis: In this he is talking about all his mother wanted was to have a man in her life. She is so weak that she couldn’t go 2 months without a man. He says that her "appetite" has grown and she needs to feed on so...
Dettwyler performed three case studies of seven children who were from poor families. The first case study was on fraternal twins, a boy named Al-Hassane and a girl named Assanatu. They were under weight. Jeneba breastfed her children but sometimes she gave them formula because breastmilk was insufficient for her children. Jeneba’s first husband died; so remarried to a widower who was an airport employee as and he stopped providing money. The children from her husband’s first marriage did not support her in the thousehold chores and in taking care of Al-Hassane and Assanatu. So she started saying sick and as a result her children would loose weight and become prone to fever, diarrhea, etc. She couldn’t...
Another example of their poverty is when the family goes to the slumps to pick up a plow that Mr. Slump had borrowed. The author explains that the Slumps just left their tools where they unhitched but, the little girl’s family had a shed where they put the machinery when it was not being used. Obviously the Slumps are not as openhanded as the little girl’s family, and are being treated as inferior because of this.
There are many policy issues that affect families in today’s society. Hunger is a hidden epidemic and one major issue that American’s still face. It is hard to believe that in this vast, ever growing country, families are still starving. As stated in the book Growing Up Empty, hunger is running wild through urban, rural, and even suburban communities. This paper will explore the differing perspectives of the concerned camp, sanguine camp, and impatient camp. In addition, each camps view, policy agenda, and values that underlie their argument on hunger will be discussed.
Farming is the main supply for a country back then. The crops that farmers produce basically was the only food supply. That makes famers a very important part of society. Farmers back t...
now to gather in the small harvest they had, and to fit up their houses
The cycle began with the Sethe’s unnamed mother, who was the first generation of slave in the family. As a result of being a field slave, she was unable to breast feed her daughter, leaving the responsibility of to Nan who also “had to nurse white babies” who “got it first” leaving Sethe with “no nursing milk to call [her] own” (236). Her mother remains nameless because it was in the mother language which Sethe did not take part in as she was born, on a boat, into slavery. It was because Sethe knew “what it is to be without milk that belongs to you” and having to “fight and holler for it, and to have so little left” that she makes an extra effort to “get that milk to her baby girl.” (97) It was after Schoolteacher’s nephews milked her that there was not enough milk left from Nan’s sparse feedings for Sethe to accommodate her children.
Saroo and his older brother Guddu are stealing coal from a moving train. After this dangerous act, they went to the market to trade the coal they stole. In return for the coal, they got two packets of milk. The siblings go home with their milk and share it with their family, but don’t tell their mom how they got it. From here, we can see the family’s struggle to put food on the table and their life in poverty. We also find out Saroo’s mother is a laborer who could not read or write. Saroo, who is still a child himself, often had to watch his younger sister while his mom and older brother were at work. We are never introduced to Saroo’s father, and it seems that Saroo’s mother cares for the entire family
...on the move and food was no longer an issue. Populations grew and the excess of food kept growing. The remaining of food is the most important factor of all. At first the people would barter the things they made for the things they need. Populations continued to grow and so did there conclusion.