passages

“The movement changed them; the highways, the camps along the road, the fear of hunger itself, changed them.” This passage sums up the feelings of the migrants. They are changed in every way by the obstacles that they themselves need to overcome. Everything that they underwent changed them because they had to try really hard in order to ease the pain. Leaving everything behind changed everything for these people. They left their whole lives behind, in order to have an opportunity to live a better one. But the obstacles that were the hardest to overcome cost them the most because they were bombarded by a lot of hostility.
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“These goddammed okies are thieves. They’ll steal anything. They’ve got no sense of property rights.” This passage gives us a clear understanding of the hostility that the okies had to overcome. They were welcomed to California with no respect whatsoever. The locals of the towns that were being invaded by the migrants formed mobs that wanted to get the migrants out of California as soon as possible. The locals believed that the migrants came to California in order to take their jobs, and all of their belongings. This passage shows us how people can be biased towards other people.
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