Summary

The section called August starts with Chapter 19. It is told from Charley’s perspective in the third person limited point of view. The laborers were on the farm to plant new mother cane. Many were migrant workers who spoke little or no English. First thing that morning, one of the laborers got sick. Charley took him to the doctor, then home with his medicines. When she got back to the farm, she saw how much of the planting was getting missed with just one worker gone. She ran to fill in and spent the day doing hard labor just to get her cane in the ground. Denton was impressed; he thought she would quit after just one row.

Charley was proud of the section of land she named Micah’s Corner. At first, it was the worst field on the farm. Their hard...