The pressures felt by Eustace of running Turtle Island are tolls that affect him constantly. When Eustace is not running across the nation yelling at audiences of people he cannot relate to and he loathes, he is busy working in his 107 acres of land. We learn that when Eustace finally has a 40 day break from his public presentations, a very rare occurrence, he decides to build an office in his land, which he spends all most the entire day doing. Eustace would spend all hours working on his building, only getting three or fours hours of sleep a night. When he wasn’t touring the country or constructing buildings, he would host children and adult camps, in which he would teach his campers how to live in the world, pray, and about the new world they are living in. All of this work would make him question his relationships with those closest with him, such as Valerie. In Valerie’s case, Eustace would question as to whether or not he could be with her forever and with his workload that took away a lot of time from their love life. Most of these burdens, such as the ones for money, all stemmed from Eustace’s estranged father. Eustace had to convince his father to loan him enough money to purchase Turtle Island, a near $80,000 investment, and o pay him back with considerable interest.
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