“Some of the owner men were kind because they hated what they had to do, and some of them were angry because they hated to be cruel, and some of them were cold because they had long ago found that one could not be an owner unless one were cold. And all of them were caught in something larger than themselves.” (31)

I chose this quote because the religion here is between the farmer as the land, it goes back and forth. I like this quote because it can be connected to many things that have been introduced in the novel thus far, but this is more of the way the farmers react to the land as it can be connected to in  ch 2. the turtle being hit by the two obstacles in its way trying to cross the road. The angry upset farmers not willing to quit although the land is no good would have to be the driver acknowledging the fact that the turtle is in the middle of the road but not slowing down or stopping continuing to ram into it knowing it may or may not live, it does not matter it has to go somewhere, careless of how the turtle will be thinking about themselves. The farmer knows the land has given all it can but will not jive up. The farmer swerving in order to keep the turtle alive is the one ho does not think about only themselves, even if it is just a “random” animal. Regardless of way both people decide to do, the land is dried up and worn out, the one willing to leave knowing that the land will do nothing but get worse is in the right and the one unwilling to leave because it is their land, their work will be the one who loses everything in reality. It is stubbornness and the way people react to the land.