The Consequences of Slightly Unpursued Future Goals
In Caldwell 's "Tobacco Road," readers ask themselves, Caldwell uses an example of pride and future goals to show how pride can affect ones future goal, or goals. In the novel, it 's shown that Jeeter creates a goal for himself, but the novel never actually says that he actually achieved it. Rather, what is shown is Jeeter performing multiple heinous tasks that barely has anything to do with his goal of creating his cotton field to make any sort of money. In Caldwell 's novel, Jeeter 's financial instability is used as a paradox to show how people can have goals and dreams only to never achieve that goal due to lack of motivation. Jeeter’s laziness leads him to procrastinate. This is seen …show more content…
This also takes place during the argument with Ada when he says that he’ll grow a cotton farm soon. The novel also states during the argument: “God is aiming to provide for us…He ain’t going to let me suffer no more (Caldwell 68-69) Jeeter starts to use God in the argument so he can sound like he has a legit excuse on why he’s not trying to grow the field. He truly believes that God will give him something if he simply does nothing but wait. Because of this, he refuses to continually find opportunities to grow his field since he’s believing that he can’t grow the field unless he has that “thing” that God is known to give him. This only results in even higher poverty and further procrastination on Jeeter’s part for he constantly believes in something that’s never going to happen. A website about psychological health further shows the result of his actions. The website states: "The problem with studying religion scientifically is that you do violence to the phenomenon by reducing it to basic elements that can be quantified, and that makes for bad science and bad religion." (Taber 1) This states that those who believe that something will happen because of their religion are known to do violent actions in the near future that only hurts them. On Jeeter’s side, he’s constantly procrastinating on achieving his goal rather than do something to make the goal reality. In the end, readers can see how Jeeter’s …show more content…
This is located right after Jeeter sells his tire and gets into the car with everyone to shop. Caldwell states in the narrative portion talking about the families shopping trip: “Jeeter got out and bought a large sack of soda crackers and two pounds of yellow cheese. He came back to the car and offered the food to Dude and Bessie.” (Caldwell 143) The problem here is that Jeeter is spending more money than he really needs to spend. Jeeter isn 't thinking about his goal that requires money to start the farm. What he does instead is recklessly spend his money on the needs of others rather than what he really needs to spend the money on. This either says that he 's given up on that goal of a cotton field or puts others first and his goals second. Either way, he fails to make that goal reality early after spending that money on things that others need to earn for themselves, which is food. An article that explains a possibility on why he spent his money like that further supports this analysis on Jeeter. The article states: "Using real money in the context of real purchases, this article demonstrates that the physical appearance of money can override the influence of denomination." (DI MURO 1). This states that nearly all people are driven to spend their money simply by looking and feeling it. People have a feeling that they can have anything they want, even if it 's just a little bit of money. Because of this,
In Caldwell 's "Tobacco Road," readers ask themselves, Caldwell uses an example of pride and future goals to show how pride can affect ones future goal, or goals. In the novel, it 's shown that Jeeter creates a goal for himself, but the novel never actually says that he actually achieved it. Rather, what is shown is Jeeter performing multiple heinous tasks that barely has anything to do with his goal of creating his cotton field to make any sort of money. In Caldwell 's novel, Jeeter 's financial instability is used as a paradox to show how people can have goals and dreams only to never achieve that goal due to lack of motivation. Jeeter’s laziness leads him to procrastinate. This is seen …show more content…
This also takes place during the argument with Ada when he says that he’ll grow a cotton farm soon. The novel also states during the argument: “God is aiming to provide for us…He ain’t going to let me suffer no more (Caldwell 68-69) Jeeter starts to use God in the argument so he can sound like he has a legit excuse on why he’s not trying to grow the field. He truly believes that God will give him something if he simply does nothing but wait. Because of this, he refuses to continually find opportunities to grow his field since he’s believing that he can’t grow the field unless he has that “thing” that God is known to give him. This only results in even higher poverty and further procrastination on Jeeter’s part for he constantly believes in something that’s never going to happen. A website about psychological health further shows the result of his actions. The website states: "The problem with studying religion scientifically is that you do violence to the phenomenon by reducing it to basic elements that can be quantified, and that makes for bad science and bad religion." (Taber 1) This states that those who believe that something will happen because of their religion are known to do violent actions in the near future that only hurts them. On Jeeter’s side, he’s constantly procrastinating on achieving his goal rather than do something to make the goal reality. In the end, readers can see how Jeeter’s …show more content…
This is located right after Jeeter sells his tire and gets into the car with everyone to shop. Caldwell states in the narrative portion talking about the families shopping trip: “Jeeter got out and bought a large sack of soda crackers and two pounds of yellow cheese. He came back to the car and offered the food to Dude and Bessie.” (Caldwell 143) The problem here is that Jeeter is spending more money than he really needs to spend. Jeeter isn 't thinking about his goal that requires money to start the farm. What he does instead is recklessly spend his money on the needs of others rather than what he really needs to spend the money on. This either says that he 's given up on that goal of a cotton field or puts others first and his goals second. Either way, he fails to make that goal reality early after spending that money on things that others need to earn for themselves, which is food. An article that explains a possibility on why he spent his money like that further supports this analysis on Jeeter. The article states: "Using real money in the context of real purchases, this article demonstrates that the physical appearance of money can override the influence of denomination." (DI MURO 1). This states that nearly all people are driven to spend their money simply by looking and feeling it. People have a feeling that they can have anything they want, even if it 's just a little bit of money. Because of this,