Chapter 25

"Behind the fruitfulness are men of understanding and knowledge and skill, men who experiment with seed, endlessly devloping the techniques for greater crops of plants whose roots will resist the million enemies of the earth: the molds, the insects, the rusts, the blights." 

"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."

This chapter is powerful because it reveals the beginning of a new age of agriculture through the application of science, but this new age does not come  without mistakes and these mistakes carry a heavily toll as with each failure, the death of the old age comes ever so closer and the poor get ever so hungry. The poor's hunger turns into hate as they see this supposed "new age" of farming succeding in only killing them faster, an age where food is supposed to be bountiful and cheap being destroyed simply because it doesn't meet standards set by those that have plenty to eat. With every new beginning comes new challenges to overcome but what happens when this new age isn't needed? The farmers of the past managed but now are deemed obsolete and tossed aside. Do you think that it was nesscessary for modern agriculture to sprout when it did?