The Bird Shouter

Behind my house are rice fields.  Each morning, I awakened by the shouts of this boy, whose job it is to scare away the birds so that they do not eat all the rice.  He does this by throwing rocks, shouting, and using complex setups of strings and cans to raise a clatter throughout the rice field.  His family only rents the land they farm and is hence very poor, although school is free, they cannot afford the books and the uniforms, and they need his help in the fields.