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The Day The Tractor Came Personification

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The author of “The Day the Tractor Came” creates a hopeless tone by using personification. The narrator says, “.. in five minutes, the tractor was able to reduce Pa to nothing.” At the point where this was said, we are able to comprehend that the character lived through the Dust Bowl of the 1930 's due to all of the mention of colossal black cloud of dust. Also, his family had tried to construct a living as farmers, although the dry land unfortunately failed to produce crops, which in the end made them no money. “... the tractor, the arrogant tractor, took my small life and shattered it into a million pieces…” The tractor is acting as the only perpetrator to destroy the narrator and his family’s home and farm. Not being able to provide for

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