Then it will be quickly spent on food feast, worthless trinkets, and store-bought liquor. The action less talk will last until the money is received. The one who talks the most will have the highest short-term status. These plans become a temporary measure of status. They plan to seek a better life up North. Plans are made by most of the cropping tenants for how they will use the money from their annual payout to escape from the plantation. They also will receive a dividend at the end of the harvest season. However, if they stay on the plantation and do as they are told, they will have a warm place to stay and a tab at the local general store. Their final departing destination is to die from freezing temperatures, hunger, and pneumonia. These tales are about sharecroppers leaving the plantation and not being able to find work elsewhere. To keep them in place, the plantation owners constantly circulate rumors. They are convinced to stay at this station in life for year after year. Now they have been promoted to sharecroppers. He and his family currently follow a path that is laid out for them. He is like many of the other sharecroppers and will not enjoy carrying out this task. First, however, he will need to do the uncomfortable task of confronting the moody being.
To gain this position will assist him in building a monetary foundation for his future.
He desires to ask his plantation boss for a part-time job as a yard boy. His heel gets a good workout while he ponders his thoughts and gathers his nerve. The weather is good for thinking and he is doing just that. He is enjoying a slight cool breeze generated by a welcoming passing cold front. A very young man sits on an oak tree stump while packing the surrounding soil with the heel of his worn out shoe.