Complex sentence: Survivors work the fields using primitive hand-held farming tools; the few children born or raised since the attack speak a broken form of illiterate English in the wakes of the collapsed education system and the breakdown of the family.
Split into simpler sentences: Survivors work the fields using primitive hand-held farming tools. The few children born or raised since the attack speak a broken form of illiterate English in the wake of the collapsed education system and the breakdown of the family.