Storming_Heaven

Storming Heaven Industrialization brought about many changes to the people of Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia. The work place changed dramatically. Before factories and big offices there were things such as farms, people working in barns, merchants, and artisans. People were beginning to work outside the home and an agricultural society had a lot more value than working at home did. Most of the factories were built in the cities and this brought a lot of immigrants to the United States. Not only were immigrants involved but women as well. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries almost all of the land of West Virginia was taken over by coal companies. If people didn’t sell their land they were forced to without knowing what consequences laid in front of them. The coal companies had control of almost every aspect of life. In the novel Storming Heaven the lives of many individuals are drastically changed. You really get a sense of what it was like to actually live the lives that these people did. The novel starts out in Justice and Payne counties which are under the rule of Sheriff Don Chafin. He is working with the coal mines and prohibits the storming, heaven, people, coal, land, industrialization, introduced, companies, character, working, together, rondal, next, lives, immigrants, brought, against, about, work, witnesses, west, virginia, struggle, rosa, railroad, place, pg, owned, out, novel, mining, marcum, lot, live, life, home, first