Clemente, the head of the Chavez family likely had the toughest time leaving his ancestral home in rural Mexico. "His soul and heart were in the earth, and he knew that when he signed he would be cutting off the strings of that attachment . It was like setting adrift on an unknown , uncharted ocean. He tried to understand the necessity of selling the land, to understand that the move would provide his children a new future in a new place, but that did not lessen the pain he felt as the roots of his soul pulled away and severed themselves from the earth which had nurtured his life" (pg. 3) Clemente Chavez had been born at his rural home in Mexico and had spent his formative years on the land. The old countryside home must felt to Clemente
