Which can be inferred about the town from the descriptions in the first two paragraphs of the
passage, on pages 1-2?
Henry Shute's novel Farming It is set at the turn of the
twentieth century and relates the experiences of a lawyer
who decides to try living and farming in the country. In this
excerpt from the chapter The Shower" the lawyer
describes what happens when a thundershower comes to
town
The town is experiencing an economic depression.
The town has received very little rain for quite some
time.
Excerpt from Farming It
by Henry A. Shute
A blaze of sunlight, a yellow gleam of dusty
road, a brown expanse of parched and dying
lawns, of drooping leaves, a dry filing of
crickets in the hayfields, and a bank of
purple-black clouds rising rapidly in the
west
The town is located in a desert where there is little
water
The town has so few inhabitants it is practically
abandoned
On the main business street the sun blazes
with an oven-like heat Under the shade of