Chapters 1-10
g. Throughout this story, the theme of man vs machine and man vs society repeatedly appear. The man in this case represents the farmers who were hit the hardest by the Great Depression, tenant farmers, and those farmers who live in the Mid-West. The machines are the new technological farming marvels that over-farm the land, and create the dust that ruins the farmer's lives. "Society" represents the bank and the other creations of society that rob from the farmers and force them off what has become their ancestral lands even though they do not actually own the land. On page 38, one of the tenant farmers who has been robbed by the bank of his land stands by as a large tractor driven by another farmer comes to wreck his house and re-plow his land. He decides to take action and approaches the driver with a rifle. The driver defends and claims that he is but a pawn who follows orders from others. Then the enraged farmer asks who gave the orders, and the man says the bank. And then says that not to shoot the bank members, the board of directors that own the bank. And then he says that they are but pawns too for the bank people in the East in a never-ending chain. Exasperated, the farmer exclaims, "I don't aim to starve to death before I kill the man who is starving me. "
g. Throughout this story, the theme of man vs machine and man vs society repeatedly appear. The man in this case represents the farmers who were hit the hardest by the Great Depression, tenant farmers, and those farmers who live in the Mid-West. The machines are the new technological farming marvels that over-farm the land, and create the dust that ruins the farmer's lives. "Society" represents the bank and the other creations of society that rob from the farmers and force them off what has become their ancestral lands even though they do not actually own the land. On page 38, one of the tenant farmers who has been robbed by the bank of his land stands by as a large tractor driven by another farmer comes to wreck his house and re-plow his land. He decides to take action and approaches the driver with a rifle. The driver defends and claims that he is but a pawn who follows orders from others. Then the enraged farmer asks who gave the orders, and the man says the bank. And then says that not to shoot the bank members, the board of directors that own the bank. And then he says that they are but pawns too for the bank people in the East in a never-ending chain. Exasperated, the farmer exclaims, "I don't aim to starve to death before I kill the man who is starving me. "
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