Universal Harvester Quotes

Darnielle, John
This Study Guide consists of approximately 75 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Universal Harvester.

Universal Harvester Quotes

Darnielle, John
This Study Guide consists of approximately 75 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Universal Harvester.
This section contains 4,019 words
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Ezra lived with his mother and father south of Ames on a property as old as any in the area; he had to drive over half a mile of gravel road to get to the highway in a car that was barely up to the task. His father had offered to help him out with a down payment on something sturdier, but Ezra, though only nineteen, felt a deep aversion to debt, and a deeper one to casting any tool aside that had any use left in it. Farm kids are like this, I’ve found. They don’t like throwing useful things away.
-- Jeremy (Part 1, Chapter 3 paragraph 20)

Importance: There is a sense of strong regional understanding in this quote, revealing both Ezra and the narrator. On a farm, you do not throw a good thing away. This is a piece of wisdom and an ethos that is carried through and lived by by these...

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