It’s remarkably troubling to witness a child perish at such a young however in 1916 this was not that uncommon or surprising. In Robert Frost’s poem “Out, Out-,” he tells a story of a farm boy cutting his hand off with a buzzsaw while cutting wood on his family farm, leading to his death from extreme blood loss. Everyone seemed insensitive by his death and just continued on about their day. I believe that this farm boy lived with his father, brother, and sister with no mother around. I have also come to the conclusion that their family was not wealthy for a sum of reasons.
One reason I have come to believe that the boy’s family is not wealthy is because in lines 10, 11, and 12 of Frost’s poem, he tells how they would not call off early even
