Riot in the camp

During this chapter there are men that try to start a riot in the camp during the dance. Tom and some of the other guys stop a different group of guys that are trying to start something. When Tom gets them away from the other people he asks why these men would possible turn against their own brethren. One of the men says that they were paid quite a bit of money to start this riot that they had planned. This is a great example of how humans can turn against each other. For a while the people of California were doing things that made the migrant farmers band together and be even more furious with them, but now they have used migrant farmers against migrant farmers. This is definitely a smart move because everyone is so desperate. If you select a small group of people from a lager group that are all desperate and you entice them with something they want, they are bound to do what you want. It is human nature to look out for yourself when you are in a rough and tough situation. People may even turn against their own families if they can benefit enough from it. I think that it is awful to think that money could turn people against the other people that are in the same boat as them, but it is undeniable that it happens. This can even be related to the Holocaust. When the Nazis were hunting people, they would tell other persecuted people to give up locations of their friends just so they could live. Even then, the people were most likely killed even if they did give up the hiding spots of people. The desperation that people experience really can make them do very evil things even though they think it is a good decision at the time. This is simply because people only want to look out for themselves in bad situations.