They gained a sense of strength in their numbers. The census that Jose Hank and Jitter took gave the poor people of the village a sense of power and the understanding that they have more people in their population then did the more-privileged people in the town. He makes note of the fact that his “Pa” feels the people of the other town come in and make fun of his village because of their low standard of living. They have many more public areas (churches, food stores, ect.). In this comparison he notices the standard of living of the people of the town that he is comparing his community to, is much higher. Jose goes on to compare the community of people that he lives with to another community of people. He finds a special sense of self-esteem and importance in having people identify the names of their family’s and how many people are in it. Jose includes his friends, Jitter and Hank in helping him take the census of the population of the people living on this land in their chicken coops. He does this by taking a census of the population of the workers that work and live on the land with him. Then he thinks with pleasant anticipation of the following October when he will once again be able to repeat the process.This is a story about Jose, a young migrant worker who works the fields with his hands and finds a way not to think about how boring the job is by redirecting his thoughts. After this, the boy keeps going to the field every afternoon until a freeze comes and it is too hard to dig. He realizes that Trine is not crazy he simply likes to feel the earth when it is sleeping. He finds that feeling the earth around his arm is a pleasurable sensation such as he has never felt before. The next day he goes to a field and does exactly what he had observed Trine do the previous day. Since this has been shown to be incorrect, they think that Trine must be crazy and forget about him. They had all assumed that the holes had something to do with money.
They return to their co-workers and report what they have seen.
Then Trine digs another hole and thrusts his arm into it in exactly the same way as before. He remains in this position for some while, even trying, unsuccessfully, to light a cigarette with one hand. From time to time he measures the depth of the hole by thrusting his arm into it, up to the elbow. They are correct that Trine digs the holes with the coffee can. They manage to fool Don Trine and observe what he does. Late the following Monday, the boys find out the truth. Trine must have dug them, they conclude, but what was he hiding? They find a coffee can and decide that this is what Trine uses to dig the holes. They speculate about what might have caused the holes. They do, however, discover a number of holes a foot deep in the field. But when they do so, they find nothing in the ditch. The boys decide to investigate the ditch the following Saturday. He seems to spend time around a ditch that crossed the west field. The young workers closely follow Trine on his walks, noting the route he takes and where he would disappear and linger. He only bought food and an occasional beer. The reasoning behind the idea that Trine was secretly wealthy was that he was an old bachelor, had been working for many years, and had nothing to spend his money on. There were other rumors about Trine, too, all of them centered on the idea that he must have money. Soon people began to say that he was hiding the money he earned or that he had found buried treasure and was bringing it back to the coop little by little. Some of his fellow workers have tried to spy on him, but he would get wise to what was happening and turn around and go back to his chicken coop. Next, the narrator reports on how the rumors about Trine spread. One says that it is Trine’s business what he does another thinks it is strange that he walks alone. They discuss the possible reasons for Trine’s walks, which puzzle them.
The next section is a dialogue between a group of unnamed workers, who work alongside Don Trine. He walks through the fields every afternoon, and he prefers to do this alone, becoming angry if anyone tries to accompany him. Then the main character, Don Trine, is introduced. The unnamed narrator, a migrant farm worker, thinks this is the best time of year because the work is nearly over and he and his fellow workers will soon be able to return to Texas. It is set somewhere in the Midwest at the end of September and the beginning of October. “The Harvest” is divided into seven short sections.
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