Hub starts work only on weekends, due to school, but he stays over at the farm and starts work early in the morning. His job entails raking the hay in the fields all day long. He soon realizes that it’s a hard job. But in midst of all this work, he comes to develop a friendship with another farmer. Its takes a bit of time, but Hub finds ways to break through and form this friendship. He also realizes that not everything other people say is entirely true. With this experience he not only learns about people but also how hard/difficult it is to maintain a good job.

As for Fat, his imagination and idea of becoming an actor puts adds a brightness to Fat's life. He becomes involved with a community musical that is played once a year. It contains a famous actor who has traveled around the world to perform and this is something that Fat is amused by. Fat becomes involved in the play and is also able to get his Aunt Grace and his grandmother in for free. His Grandmother doesn’t care so much for the play, but she realizes it matters a great deal to Fat.

Although Fat and Hub aren’t making much money to get their mother back, these jobs build a self-confidence within each of them. And this confidence helps build up their courage to ask their grandmother if their mother can come back home and live with them all.

This episode is very similar to what happens in our era, today. Many children don’t want to work, but once they do it changes them. They look at things completely different and much of that is because they build self-confidence and new awareness.