Answer+to+the+Reading+Question


 * [[image:starve.jpg]] || How can people starve when fruits are overabundant? ||
 * //The Workers// || ||

When fruits are overabundant, the selling price drops greatly. When this happens, farmers do not make enough money to pay wageworkers. Considering that the wageworkers are usually paid minimum wage, if their wage is reduced, they end up not having enough money to buy food. In the case of the //Grapes of Wrath//, the farmers made the situation worse for the wageworkers by burning any surplus fruits in order to raise prices. Instead of giving the fruits to those who needed them, the farmers let them starve.