Sets scene of dust bowl

Sets scene of dust bowl

Women and children watch men

Men do not break

Road/Dust

Southwest

Oatbeard in shell

Drivers

Conflict betweensocioeconomic classes

Destroys human elements of land

Driver part of machine

Ignores place in community,responsibility to humanity

Torn from land/identity

Takes advantage of farmer

Farmer looses control

Frantic

Lose identity w/o possessions

Lose human dignity with unfair price

Anger begins

Small man cannot help himself,must rely on unity with others

Mechanical Lifelessnes

Driver distance from land/life force

Farmers take life from region

Fear from owners

Results: wideninggovernment, labor unity

Causes: hunger, anger,struggle to survive

Farmers able to do more as"we" than as "I"

Human Unity

New Laws

Survive together

Migrants unite, anger towardsituation/banks

Natives toward migrants takingover, contributing to growth of bigfarms

Townspeople of angry migrants

Drives migrants to CA

Allows migrants to work for less

Growers use new techniques

Chemists invent new pesticides

Migrant workers pickbountiful fruit

Use land only for profit

Ignore life force of land

People able to eat again

Scales sometimescrooked

Pickers band together

Misfortune may come back;cautious

No work

Family