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Village Life In Ronald Blythe's Akenfield

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In Ronald Blythe's book, Akenfield, he give example of village life and how thirty-five years of life in the village have changed because more retired residents while far fewer men work on the land and how many things remain the same in the village. In the book the villagers' explain how they were not so different from people in the cities. What cause people to change their way of life. Farming is the way of life in the village. The old way of life was harsh and the people who have been farming all their life only know the hard work and the cheap pay that the owner of the farm give them. Knowledged help make a change. But is the change for the good or do it cause more problem. The war made people look at their condition and to starter asking …show more content…

You can tell that some of the farmer had want better deal. Than they were getting before the war but they were still people who did not want any new changes. Although the social norms of living in the village is to know your neighbor and work hard till you retire but the social norms was changing to become more city living because of the generation gap, a boom in technology and economic reason. it a reminder that change is as much a part of rural life as it is of urban. That the social norm had to change for the better. A generation gap is a cause of way the village is changing because the younger generation were look for job outside of farming and going to school to learn better trade than doing what their father did like they did in the past. In Leonard Thompson interview who was a farm worker explain how life as a farm worker was hard work. He talk about how the pay to work on the farm was not good and how working on the farm was hard. Thompson who a farm worker give us example of how the economy was changing for farmer after the first war and how “The farmer were able to pay the new wages because of the prices guaranteed by the corn act of 1917” pg. 57 but , “The government ended the corn act less than a year after it had been made a law.” pg

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