In the play script "brother in the land" written by Robert Swindles what does Ben's death signify?

Danny, Kim and Ben enter in Richard's shop. More food items are stacked in the cellar. Then Rhode's enters quietly and Danny didn't hear that Ben throws the tin of beans on Rhodes head from behind the counter.  He shot Ben, Then he fell to the ground and then Danny took him in his arms. Where he then died. Signifies that to survive the people adopted illegal means to feed themselves like Danny and Charlie. They tried to steal the food from Mr. Cartwright's house.