The book The Grapes of Wrath focuses on a particular section of America called the "Dust Bowl" during the early nineteen thirties. During this time, when tenant farming was a way of life for so many Oklahomans, there came a drought which drastically cut down production of crops and forced the bank to evict the tenants in order to cut losses. The problem may seem straightforward at first, and maybe it is, but the cause of the problem should not be simplified. Naturally, the three participants in this disaster, the tenants, the bank and the workers, have their own separate,...
person controls it, rather, it controls the people, shaping and forging lives into a money-making machine. In fact this bank has been clanking its massive gears for many years, and is bringing its labors to fruition in modern-day society, making people forget kindness and compassion and focus on possessions and money. In fact, when those poor tenants were asking who they could shoot, they were far too late, for the motions of the technological revolution were already set and would easily crush those bumpkins without a thought. "When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size."42