They barely scrape by with the money that they get from selling their crops. But, the land they live on is fully theirs, and the money from the crops goes towards keeping it that way. Since money is tight, the family does not always pay in the conventional way; they use whatever goods and materials they can round up on the farm in exchange for services from local practices, like Atticus’s. What’s respectable about them is that even though they may not have the means to “make ends meet,” they still find ways to pay off their
They barely scrape by with the money that they get from selling their crops. But, the land they live on is fully theirs, and the money from the crops goes towards keeping it that way. Since money is tight, the family does not always pay in the conventional way; they use whatever goods and materials they can round up on the farm in exchange for services from local practices, like Atticus’s. What’s respectable about them is that even though they may not have the means to “make ends meet,” they still find ways to pay off their