Burley, Jarrat's brother and Nathan's uncle

Virgil's family: In marrying, she becomes a part of his community. They live at his parents house. She becomes loyal to their family and stays with them when Virgil goes to war.

School Community: When she graduates high school, she gets a feeling of finding what her purpose is in the world and who she is going to be.

Coulter Community: Hannah joins the Coulter community when she begins to date Nathan

Ivy took Hannah's grandmother's jewelry, though Hannah really wanted it. Hannah was expecting her father to give her the jewelry but when Ivy took it she was disappointed. Hannah didn't think about it too much but she did say that she knew that Ivy was undeserving of the jewelry.

Caleb, Hannah and Nathan's last child together( becomes an agricultural professor)

Caleb going to college made it much harder for him to visit his family. Additionally, Hannah was worried that he would lose interest in farming as a result of his education. This stressed out Hannah, and probably stressed out Nathan, Caleb, and Margaret. This in turn, would have put strain on the community of their family.

Mattie, Hannah and Nathan's first child together(becomes really rich with computer intelligence)

Margaret's community- She gets married to a guy named Marcus after college. They have a child named Virgie. Marcus cheats on Margaret. they get a divorce and Virgie visits the Coulters often.

Mattie's community: Mattie goes to college and meets a girl. They get married and Mattie becomes really successful and rich

Wendell Berry believes that the purpose of a community and government is to be working together. That if a person is afraid to vote the government is useless. In the interview, Berry states, "Cooperation means working together. If you cant work together, you cant have a community." He feels that the society we are in today is not working together as a "cooperation". This community is not degenerating it is disintegrating because instead of working together we are working against each other.

Berry is opposed to people becoming isolated in their own work from the community. He says in the interview, "What you have to regret is the isolation of the specialists so that they're at liberty to judge their work by professional standards to the exclusion of any other kind." This shows that he believes that everyone should seek to contribute to the community in their work. He also believes that a person should not allow their work to separate them from the community. We can see this echoed in Hannah Coulter, with Caleb drifting away from his family as a result of his education.

Caleb's community: He becomes a agriculture professor.

Also helps Virgie to repair his mental state when he comes home. Hannah recounts "He looks better. Confidence seems to be coming back into his eyes" (Berry 184). This is a direct result of him reuniting with his family and beginning to work on the farm.

When Virgil returns the community works together to try and help him by giving him permission doing the things he feels uncomfortable doing.