Farmers coming together

The wealthy landowners have caused the tenant farmers to do exactly what the California residents did not want them to do. With all of the hostility that they have shown towards the tenant farmers, the farmers have come together. One quote that describes this is, “the flare of want in the eyes of the migrants.” This is what all of the land owners and California residents fear of the farmers. They have hired armed people to protect the land from the migrant farmers. This is probably a mistake too, because this will only cause the farmers to come together more. This is shown in the previous chapter because a sheriff tries to shoot someone that asks for help from a land owner. What the officer does is extremely reckless and I would say against protocol for the police department. This makes the other tenant farmers upset because it made them understand how easily they could get in trouble or get hurt by people for simply wanting to have a job to survive. The people trying to push the tenant farmers away and keep them out of the state really can not do anything to stop them. The farmers have absolutely nothing left so they do not have to worry about dying really. They have already sacrificed everything so it really is not a big deal that a couple of people try to keep them away. It is also sad because the owners of the big farms are trying to keep the small farms out of business along with keeping the migrant farmers out and away. This causes even less jobs because the small farms are the ones that would actually hire any of the migrant workers. Overall everything that the land owners and the California residents are doing to keep the tenant farmers out is what is making the farmers band together and become stronger as a group. It just seems that the land owners don’t get what they’re doing.