Theme+song


 * Bad Moon Rising"--Creedence Clearwater Revival

I see trouble on the way. I see earthquakes and lightnin'. I see bad times today.
 * I see a bad moon arising.

Don't go around tonight, Well, it's bound to take your life, There's a bad moon on the rise.

I hear hurricanes ablowing. I know the end is coming soon. I fear rivers over flowing. I hear the voice of rage and ruin.

Don't go around tonight, Well, it's bound to take your life, There's a bad moon on the rise.

Hope you got your things together. Hope you are quite prepared to die. Looks like we're in for nasty weather. One eye is taken for an eye.

Don't go around tonight, Well, it's bound to take your life, There's a bad moon on the rise.

Don't go around tonight, Well, it's bound to take your life, There's a bad moon on the rise.

[|Bad moon rising]

In Chapter 21, the conflicts between the Californians and the Okies are beginning to get more violent as the locals decide to start fighting against the migrants. The chapter carries the feeling that something is about to happen, and that a larger conflict is about to break out, much like the “bad moon rising” in the song. The song gives a string of destructive images, along with the warning that the stated situations will destroy you in the process that they take. The conflict about to break out in the novel is reflected in the foreboding imagery of the song.