Work at peach farm

This section of the novel is quite dark and depressing. As the family is about to leave the camp a man tells them of work at a peach orchard. They go there and find that they can only make five cents per box, which is extremely awful wages even for a job such as that. The entire family works for the entire day and the fruits of their labors are very low. The family made just enough to pay for dinner for that night. It is not even that much food, because everyone is still hungry after eating. This is really sad. I think it is just terrible that someone can work for an entire day and not have enough money for one meal. It is just hard to imagine ever going through such an ordeal. This really does remind me of the Holocaust. Of course during WWII there was no wages at all but a small meal was provided. In this case there is pay but no mean provided. It ends up balancing out if you think about it. This is just so depressing to think that something like this happened to our country. It is hard to imagine that people in our own country went through much of the same things as the people in the Holocaust. It is obviously not as bad because people were not slaughtered and killed in cold blood during the Depression, but still, in both situations there are people that are starving to death and working very hard and jobs for either little or no money in each respective situation. I thought that the last chapter was really sad, but I would say that this section of the novel takes the title. When something reminds you of the Holocaust, it is probably safe to say that it is not a pleasant thing. This really explains why the Great Depression made such a big impact on so many people.