Margaret is married to Richard. Prior to her life as a farmer's wife, Margaret lived in an unnamed city. She went through many difficulties in order to become a proper farm wife. The experience in this story doesn’t appear to be something which you can grab easily, every simple thing needs experience as she believes: good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment, even in the matter of weather.
The chances are that you never knew what can make you bankrupt, you realize too late the type of circumstance and the pressure you are under. Until then, you are in your own; your family is around but nothing seems to be certain in the immense inevitable attack.
Millions of locusts attack the farm ruthlessly, one thing was definite, nothing of the crops will be left; nothing but bare dry ground.
This story explains what is it to be a survivor, a different kind of survivor in unexpected threat which is much overwhelming but taken from positive aspect… it could be much worse.
Summary of A Mild Attack of Locusts:
The weather in the farm was good that day, until a swarm of locusts which could, perhaps destroy the crops and the family livelihood.
Margret is a proper famer’s wife, but she is unused and unexperienced about the hardship of the farm. Every simple thing needs experience as she believes: good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment, even in the matter of weather.
When the locusts came, she felt helpless due to lack of experience. In spite of that, she tried her best to help her husband and father in law to save the crops, as in other words their life. She has wondered before why her husband and his father go under a lot of pressure to save the farm and there are so many inevitable factors which can easily ruin their effort. The entire story appears like a battle, whereas internal and external conflicts are clear and how they get resolved at the end.
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