'Progress' once again crushes the peace of rural existence. But were the feelings that 'Johnny' had as a child any different than a child growing up post-changes in a 'new light'?
It's too late for Johnny to adjust to it all, but the next generation won't know the difference living in their 'days of rain'. The sad thing here is not that Johnny will never have his world back, it's that the next generation will never understand what it was like.
'Progress' once again crushes the peace of rural existence. But were the feelings that 'Johnny' had as a child any different than a child growing up post-changes in a 'new light'?
It's too late for Johnny to adjust to it all, but the next generation won't know the difference living in their 'days of rain'. The sad thing here is not that Johnny will never have his world back, it's that the next generation will never understand what it was like.