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In both the novel and his article from Harvest Gypsies, Steinbeck develops the idea that the American Dream may not be a reality for all people. Use evidence from the essay and the novel to explain how he develops this idea. You should cite direct quotations from each resource to support your opinion. You should have five paragraphs, including an introduction with a clear thesis statement, three body paragraphs with clear topic sentences and evidence from your sources, and a conclusion.

Steinbeck defines dignity in The Harvest Gypsies as "[…] a register of a man's responsibility to community" (39).  This sense of responsibility is of the utmost importance, according to Steinbeck, for maintaining the human spirit and a sense of decency and ethics.  The atrocious, inhumane treatment of the migrants, ranging from forced starvation to terror tactics, results in the complete "destruction of dignity," which Steinbeck calls "[…] one of the most regrettable results of the migrant's life" (39).  Steinbeck warns such a loss results in a sullen anger that makes men prone to lashing out at the social system.  He writes, "A man herded about, surrounded by armed guards, starved and forced to live in filth loses his dignity; that is, he loses his valid position in regard to society, and consequently his whole ethics towards society" (39).

Repeatedly Steinbeck advocates the restoration of the migrants' dignity as the number one priority of relief efforts.  Integral to that restoration is re-establishing a sense of civic duty and responsibility.  Steinbeck champions the "responsible self-government" of the federal camps as the answer to successfully integrating the migrants into California life and eliminating perceived threats of violence, labor organization, and disease.  He writes, "The sullen and frightened expression that is the rule among the migrants has disappeared from the faces of the federal camp inhabitants.  Instead there is a steadiness of gaze and a self-confidence that can only come of restored dignity" (41).   Steinbeck reminds readers that the migrants are American citizens, having come from a proud agrarian history of civic and church duty.  Abject poverty and the constant threat of starvation have destroyed the migrants' spirit as they are overcome by first shame, then hopelessness, and ultimately indifference.  Steinbeck concludes that replacing that indifference with a renewed sense of community responsibility is crucial for restoring the migrants as functional citizens of the United States.

Vigilantism

As does In Dubious Battle (1936) and The Grapes of Wrath (1939), The Harvest Gypsies characterizes vigilante violence as a terrible scourge that threatens the very social and political fabric of the nation.  Steinbeck shows how the powerful growers, in their arrogance, flout the laws of the United States and employ vigilante violence as a means of cowing the migrants.  He argues the growers, in their proliferation of vigilantism, are in direct violation of criminal syndicalism laws that prohibit the use of organized violence in industry.  Steinbeck quotes Hugh T. Osburne, representative of the Imperial Valley Associated Farmers, as saying: "In Imperial Valley we don't need this criminal syndicalism law.  They have got to have it for the rest of the counties that don't know how to handle these matters.  We don't need it because we have worked out our own way of handling these things.  We won't have another of these trials.  We have a better way of doing it.  Trials cost too much" (37).

That better way, according to Steinbeck, is herding the migrants about under the constant threat of violence designed to keep them in a perpetual state of fear.  In turn, that fear feeds increased suspicion and anger between the land owners and migrants perpetuating a cycle of escalating violence and oppression.  It is a situation, Steinbeck argues, that cannot persist, for it "[…] has accomplished nothing but unrest, tension and hatred.  A continuation of this approach constitutes a criminal endangering of the peace of the state" (37).  Steinbeck concludes that growers and vigilantes must be brought to justice under the nation's laws in order to protect that integrity of the government.  

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