The author really brings out his feelings about the whole sorry situation of the farmers being driven out of their homes through Muley Graves and his speeches. Although he may not be the smartes man who ever lived, he feels things just as deeply as anybody else including attachment, loneliness, pride, and pain.
The author uses a very touching monologue by Muley to really help the reader picture and feel all of the emotions that these poor people are going through. Muley goes through events that have spanned his entire life and left profound impacts on him, and it is these things that he simply cannot bear to leave behind. It is human nature to want to hold onto a place that holds a lot of memories for you for fear that if you left it you would lose all of those things too.
For Muley there are a lot of important memories in that area that mean a lot to him and he cannot bear to leave behind. For example, there is a bush in a gully that is the sight for his first time with a girl. There is a house where someone he knew was born in one of the rooms and he was present to see that boy take his very first breaths in that very spot. There is also a spot where he has to witness his father being gored by a bull and dying in his arms as he looked on.
The author uses this emotional display to zero in on the point, and that is that when the businessmen took away those people's property, that was not all they took. They also stole their mmemories and their childhoods and everything else those people held dear, and that was an incredible crime. To them it might have just been good business, but to these people it was an entire legacy left to them by their ancestors, and it was the place that held everything in the world that had ever been important to them all.
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