Throughout the chapter, Steinback discusses how horrid the situation is for the farmers. He makes the reader feel sympathy for them through dialogue and text. Although, I do feel sympathy for the farmers and the workers, I noticed that everyone searched for someone to blame. Their initial reaction was not to create a plan of action, but instead they wanted to know who was responsible? WHY? What would the people have done if there were a specific person to blame?
Since the beginning of the novel, assumptions are made that corporations and companies are bad and evil, but do the people have any logical reasons to assume this?
I also noticed that they spoke about the bank as if it were an animate object. "The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it" (Pg 23). According to Google, a bank is a financial establishment that invests money deposited by customers, pays it out when required, makes loans at interest, and exchanges currency. Why are the people so scared of the bank? If they should fear anyone, it'd be the landowners that sold their property to the bank, so that the bank could tractor it.
Also, the owners take no responsibility for the eviction of the farmers they claim, "It's not us, it's the bank". But a "bank" cannot force someone into doing something because a bank is an inanimate object. (Side note: the people who control the bank cannot force you into making decisions you do not want to take as each and every individual thinks for themselves.)
I agree with your knowledge. Although I do believe that everyone is looking for someone to blame, because they do not want to acknowledge it as their own fault. They want to blame someone else for their own wrong doing by borrowing a "small" amount of money from the bank. They should have known that there was going to be consequences for their actions even though they seem unimportant.
ReplyDeleteExactly! Which is why it makes no sense that everyone is putting the blame on others when they brought the evictions upon themselves by not paying what they owned.
DeleteI agree with Guadalupe on this one. People always blaming others nobody wants to take responsibility for they're wrong doing.
ReplyDeletedo you think there is any specific reasoning for this? Nowadays people assume responsibility whether they are proud of it or not.
DeleteI feel like they feel the need to blame someone because they have a lot of pride and dignity. They are taking away their home, which probably makes them feel disrespected and they want a little respect back by bashing their heads.
ReplyDeleteThey may be proud and dignified, but that is no excuse to want to bash someone's head. Personally, I see that as a loss of respect. I do not think their problems will be solved with violence.
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