Highway 66

Chapter twelve was also sad like chapter eleven was. It talks about all of the cars on the highway, route 66 to be specific. Most people’s cars are breaking down because there were not in good condition to start with. This of course is because of the car salesmen earlier in the story. Most of the families fear that they may not even make it the next stretch of road without something going wrong. All kinds of parts are breaking and it is really sad to know that the families have to go through with all of it because it would be so difficult to turn back at that point. Some people are stuck at the side of the road hoping that someone will pick them up and take them with them, but no one really wants to have to look out for extra people. All of the workers at stops with parts for cars are selling them at ridiculous prices like the car salesmen did earlier to the farmers. Once again the farmers are in no position to negotiate prices. It is sad at the part where someone tells a farmer that they should just turn around. He says that there are police at the border turning people around and not letting them in so they should just stop now. To hear that would be so discouraging, and then to continue on would take so much motivation; actually, not as much motivation, but rather desperation. The farmers have nothing to go back to though, so their only choice is to try and continue on. They farmers were convinced that they had an opportunity waiting for them in California, but one of the workers at a stop told them that someone was just kidding with them. It is really depressing to think that someone lied to them during such a rough time for everyone. This is just a sad chapter that really depicts how desperate all of the farmers are.