Corn Husking Narrative

Corn Husking
We were tired, tired of working, tired of hunting just tired. We were doing the same routine we had done everyday for the past 6 months and were getting nowhere. It seemed as if no matter how hard or how long we worked, we couldn’t get out of this routine. Time was counting down too fast for us to notice how far we were behind, all the work we had done would be for nothing if we couldn’t even make it past the winter. The days were getting shorter and we were getting slower, we knew that if we didn’t pick up the pace soon than food would be scarce and our corn would soon be gone. We had everyone in the barn working, from little sister Sally to our worn down grandfather, but still that wasn’t enough people to get everything done in time. People in the nearest town were already talking about this being one of the harshest winters, …show more content…
One of the benefits of the whole family working together was that we knew each one of us was there for the other. When one person in the family felt sick or just worn down and had no more in them, there was always another person to pick them back up. We all had a certain role in the day, a way to contribute a way to make up for each other's weaknesses and evening it out with their own strength. Take grandpa for example he always was the brighter side of our day, maybe it was because physically he couldn’t do as much as the rest of us but he had a way of making up for it in other areas, like trying to keep us from noticing the bad parts of the day, and helping us to look at the things that were going right. Whereas Sally might have been our way to still be in contact with our childhood, sure the grown ups weren’t children anymore but i believe it made them remember how it was to be a child and have the feeling that there was nothing bad in the world, like you were invincible. It was hard for us to get that feeling so we tried to get it as much as we