3.+Role+of+Individual

=The Role of an Individual Dealing with Injustice =

**The role of the individual in dealing with injustice is that they must unite with other groups of individuals in order to reclaim justice.** The role of the farmer in dealing with injustice is that they believed that the Okies were injustly taking their jobs. To confront what they believed was injustice, the farmers formed local bands to terrorize the Okies and keep them in place. One of the bands that they formed was the Farmers Association, which in chapter 24 started a riot in the migrant camps. The way that the farmers dealt with injustice was incorrect because at the same time that they were trying to fix the injustice, they were being unjustly themselves towards the Okies. Eventually, the farmers were forced off their landand forced to look for work elsewhere, just like the Okies. "The little farmers moved into town for a while and exhausted their credit, exhausted their friends, their relatives. And then they too went to the highways. And the roads were crowded with men ravenous for work, murderous for work."(284). At the end, the farmers were lowered to the same level as the Okies, who they had been treating unjustly.

The Okies deal with injustice by excepting lower wages by companies to be able to feed their families. With the mass of people and such few jobs, the Okies offer to work for the least amount of money that will keep them from starvation. "And the migrants streamed on the highways and their hunger was in their eyes, and their need was in their eyes."(283). The migrants worked for very low wages just to survive. By paying the workers very low wages, the big businesses were in control of society and gaining a large profit.