At the beginning of what I was reading, Ma seems to be rather suspious about the camp manager when he comes over to have a cup of coffee. I don't understand why Ma talks to him as though she is trying to protect something. Is it because of all of the other cops and everyone else who act superior to them? Another event that I didn't really understand or found weird was when a woman walks up to Rose of Sharon and tells her not to hug-dance or act because other pregnant women who did that lost their baby. Rose gets worried, but the camp manager tells her that the woman just tells other people things like that to make them miserable and that the two women lost their babies because they were weak and didn't have enough to eat. At the end of the day, Al, Uncle John, and Pa come back to the camp and have to found jobs yet even though Tom had.
At this camp there is a lot of music and dancing, especially on Saturday night when they have their weekly dance. On that night, the Farmers' Association planned to start a riot on purpose just to get the camp shut down. Someone on the camp committee hires someone to watch for anything unusual that could start a riot. Tom and some other men see a couple of suspicious men. When one of the men tries to dance with another man's date, the men are evicted from the camp.
Chapter 25 talks about how beautiful California is in the spring.
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Chapter 25 is about more than just how pretty CA is in the spring. It sets a tone for the nation at this time. The wrath comes not only from the obvious reasons of not being able to find work, but also because of the unattainability of the fruit. All these people were dreaming about when they got to CA how they were going to eat tons of the fruit. But the fruit is unreachable to them. They can't eat the fruit from the trees or in the streets. No matter what, the very thing they dreamed of is impossible to get and it is making these people very angry.
I think Ma was suspicious and cautious around the camp manager because they were new to the camp and she didn't know how things worked. Besides that, to trust a stranger at a time like that in the book would be hard to do.
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