Grapes of Wrath- Bulldozer

The families living in that time thought that the only thing that would be hard was selling all of their land to the banks. They did not know all of the destruction that the bank was going to cause. Only a day after they would sell the land to the bankers, tractors would arrive to their land. The tractors were their to bulldoze. They would bulldoze anything that was in their way, and they did not care what it was or how much it meant to the people that lived there. They would even bulldoze right through people's homes. They were not going to stop for much. I could not imagine being the person bulldozing people's land, and just not feeling bad about it. I would feel so bad about myself. I guess that during that time though, any job you could get you would take. In the book, when the people saw their lands getting bulldozed, they recognized the driver of the bulldozer. They recognized him because he was a son of one of their neighbors. The people never knew why someone could do something like that. They asked the driver how he could just put everybody he knew out of their homes like this. They did not get how someone you knew your whole life, could just run a bulldozer through their homes like that. Everybody was devistated in that time. Even though they were all going to move away and would not have to think about it, they still were upset to have to leave their homes the way they did. The only reason the guy ran the bulldozer was because the bank was paying him three dollars a day, and he had a family to take care of. While reading this book, this was probably one of the sadest moments. I could not imagine living then, and having to go through what they did. I wish that I could live a day during that time, just so I could see what they were really going through.