Nature turns the innocent Haskins family into another casualty of her wrath when a destructive grasshopper swarm destroys their land. The destruction leaves the family homeless and struggling for survival. In light of the devastation, Haskins recounts his overwhelming horror of the grasshoppers by revealing that "They wiped us out. They chawed everything that was green. They jest set around waitin’ f’r us to die t’ eat us, too" ( ). The Haskins family's plight mirrors the horrifying experience modern-day families often encounter when faced with nature's destructive power. For instance, catastrophic storms, unexpected earthquakes, and other natural occurrences demolish people’s lives every day. In the same way as the grasshopper swarm lay waste to Haskins’s land, present day natural catastrophes leave people homeless and economically ruined. In the end, regardless of the century in which they occur, natural catastrophes destroy hopes and
Nature turns the innocent Haskins family into another casualty of her wrath when a destructive grasshopper swarm destroys their land. The destruction leaves the family homeless and struggling for survival. In light of the devastation, Haskins recounts his overwhelming horror of the grasshoppers by revealing that "They wiped us out. They chawed everything that was green. They jest set around waitin’ f’r us to die t’ eat us, too" ( ). The Haskins family's plight mirrors the horrifying experience modern-day families often encounter when faced with nature's destructive power. For instance, catastrophic storms, unexpected earthquakes, and other natural occurrences demolish people’s lives every day. In the same way as the grasshopper swarm lay waste to Haskins’s land, present day natural catastrophes leave people homeless and economically ruined. In the end, regardless of the century in which they occur, natural catastrophes destroy hopes and