Chapter 25

After reading Chapter 25, I was kind of annoyed at the fact that the landowners went through so much work and effort just to accomplish their goal of starving people to death. For starters, it seemed cruel that the large landowners would purposely drive the price of labor down so that the small farmers wouldn't be able to afford to harvest their land and end up losing it. Then, they would let a mass number of food go to waste as the hungry people watched the food decompose on the dirt floor. Crops would be burned and pigs would be killed and thrown into a pit that would be soon covered up with dirt. Also, they would throw perfectly fine potatoes into the river and have policemen prohibit the migrants from getting any from the water. Finally, they sprayed kerosene on hundreds of oranges, knowing that the migrants wouldn't eat them. The only purpose why: just to let innocent and poor people go hungry another day until soon enough they die of hunger or disease. In their minds, they are "making the state a better place." The landowners truly sounded like monsters which can also be compared to the banks in the country states. This quote from the book summarizes everything, "In the souls of the people, the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."