Assignment G Ch 1-10

G) "The bank--the monster has to have profits all the time. I can't wait. It'll die. No, the taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size." 32

The banks have more interest in the money that the farmers make instead of the interest of having the people there. They would rather just get rid of people who can't make profits and find someone who can. All they care about is the money. This quote is saying how if the farmers can't make crops, they won't have money. And if they don't have money, the bankers won't make any profits from their land. This is a conflict in the novel because their are lots of people who want land to grow crops in order to make some money. But sometimes the year they try to make crops won't be a good year, then they won't have money.

"No man had touched the seed, or lusted for the growth. Men ate what they had not raised, had no connection with the bread. The land bore under iron, and under iron gradually died; for it was not loved or hated, it had no prayers or curses. (36)

The farmers need to have some emotion towards the land. Have some love or passion wilhile farming. Have faith that their crops will grow that year. The men is tractors to make their crops. Machines. Not hand made. But when their crops go wrong that year, they have nothing to eat. So they eat someone else's crops.