om California. They tell a story not extremely unlike the other story which the man at the road-side camp described. Their story describes the conditions as very uncomfortable. Subsequently the Joads paid no head to this warning either. Hence, they traveled on, only to meet up with (on page 274) a very dispassionate police officer. This gave the Joads a first hand sip of the general mood that Californians had for these migrant workers. The policeman treated the migrants with little or no respect,seemed to just as soon see them drop off the face of the earth than see them come into California. The Corollary chapter Nineteen deals with the history of California. How it was settled by the feverish Americans. Through these descriptions we can start to understand the Californians view on why they dislike the migrant workers with such conviction. The chapter describes the initial owners of the land, the Mexicans, as being "weak and fed". This description would suggest that the Mexican's were well fed and content to live freely on the land with little desire to need more. Thus they were in little position to try and stop the onslaught of American's who wanted the land much more than the Mexicans did, and were too weak to stop them from doing so. This lead to the turning over of the land to the American's in the California region. This same land was kept by the same families and worked with much success. So much success that they needed to work only part of it to stay leisurably comfortable, financially. Therefore the burning desire for the land diminished. This is where the migrant workers come in. TheCalifornians view of the workers are very much the same as the Mexican's must have thought of the Californians when there land was taken over. Consequently the Californians, being afraid that history might repeat itself and the workers may take over the land, the Californians tried to discourage the growth in population of migrant workers as much...
