Miri's Struggle In 'Princess Academy'

How do people make a living by working in a quarry? In the novel “Princess Academy” That how Miri’s village survives. Everyone in the village works in the quarry and loves to do it. Now most people hate working but when everyone is helping and singing in time how can you not love it? It is Miri’s dream to work in the quarry but she learns that is not where she is need. Quarries are a way of live for some people and is the only way they can earn a living. A quarry is a place, typically a large, deep pit from which stone or other materials are or have been extracted. In Ohio there is a quarry that has a nearly eight mile long vein of high quality flint. This quarry is called Flint Ridge also known as the “Great Indian Quarry of Ohio”. There are hundreds of
“She tried to estimate how many blocks of linder had been used to build the foundation of that building, how many bushels of grain is would buy, how much wood to build a chapel big enough to hold the whole village, enough food so no one’s belly felt pinched on a winter’s night, a library of books, spun cloth like the lowlanders wore, new shoe, musical instruments, sweets for the little ones, a comfortable chair for every grandparent, and a hundred of other necessities and fancy things.” p.g 103. Where now a days they sell the materials out of the quarries for ,money to pay worker and for the machinery. In both real life and in the novel the quarries are loud with the pounding of so many hammers or mallets. “ The workers used this way of talking without speaking aloud so they could be heard despite the clay plugs they wore and the deafening blows of mallets.” p.g 15 “ Even from her hilltop, Miri could hear the changing songs in the rhythms of the mallet, chisel, and lever, the sounds overlapping, the vibrations stirring the ground where she sat.” p.g