Personification
The tractor
" Twelve curved iron penes erected in the foundry, orgasms set by gears, raping methodically" (36)
It shows how the tractors have the organs or enough power to consume profit and destroy the farmers' lives. The penes are parts of the human bodies. It destroyed people especially farmers' hopes because they takes over the job of the farmer so they are not able to make any profit to the extend that the tractor "rape" the farmers' jobs which put them into poverty and desperation towards life.
The bank
" Breathe profits; they eat interest on money. If they don't get it, they die the way you die without air, without side-meat." (39)
This quote shows how the bank "breath" or taking in the profit for themselves and exhale out nothing that will be benefited for the people. They also "eat" the extra money that was left without giving back to the community which is in need. Without the money, the bank will die like how a human "die without air" because they need to save themselves from going bankrupt so they constantly needs the money to loan it out to other places to make a profit.
The cotton and crops
" You know what cotton does to the land; robs it, sucks all the blood out of it" (32)
The cotton is given the human characteristic when it "robs" which is also how the cotton has done some damage on the lands by taking the healthy nutrients away from the soil. The cotton also "sucks all the blood" which is also the nutrients of soil are all given to the cotton which makes profit but it is not a source for food. Cotton crops make it difficult to grow other crops once the cotton is gone.
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