In these chapters the Saturday night dance takes place. Everyone in the camp gets dressed up and puts on their best clothes. In the previous chapters, they found out that there were going to be men that tried to start a riot so the cops could come in and break up the camp, but the camp officers were going to be ready. They set people all around the gates to watch, and then Tom and another man near the entrance to watch for suspicious people. A little way into the night Tom and his partner noticed three men that came in and looked suspicious. The three men told the guard that Mr. Johnson had invited him, but he hadn't. As soon as one of these men asked a girl to dance, the group of men closed in on all three of them. One of them let out a high whistle that indicated there would be a riot so the deputies came to the gate. The only problem with their little plan was that all three of the men were taken to the edge of the camp with their hands tied and mouths covered, therefore, they couldn't start a riot and the deputies had no reason to be allowed in. They threatened the three men and threw them back on the other side of the fence.
The last section doesn't really talk about the Joads, but intead about how the farmers are beginning to go broke. They can't make enough money to even harvest and sell their fruit so instead they must dump the fruit in the river, or burn it. They do this because if they just allow the people to come get the fruit for free nobody would ever buy any. The people are starting to get angry, their children are dieing from malnutrion as they watch them burn piles of oranges and guard them from fishing the potatoes out of the river.
I predict that in the coming chapters the government camp is going to be broken up by the deputies because whenever they want to push the Okies around they always find a way. I also think that the people are going to start getting together and figuring out ways to get to all of this food that is being burned our dumped into the rivers.
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I agree with the fact that the camp will probably be broken up. "Where there's a will, there's a way" and there's definitely a strong will in the Californians to get the Okies out.
I know that the farmers need to make a profit, but I don't know how they can just let the food rot and burn it when there are people starving. My conscience would get the better of me.
oh kim... you are so smart!!!
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