Chapter 7
Summary: this was one of the poetic chapters and one of the "bigger picture" chapters. Once again the Farmers who have been mistreated and kicked off their land are facing worsening prospects. They are trying to sell anything thing that they have left such as household goods so they can buy cars and transportation to carry them west. A salesman does well to sell them barely running jalopies at way higher than usual prices so he can make a large profit. He manages to make them seem like good cars by pouring sawdust into the engines to make them sound like they are running good. And even though the tenants realize they are being taken advantage of, they are no other options and there are no better cars around that they can afford so they have to settle with the piece of crap cars this salesman is selling.
Characters: (this is one of the bigger picture chapters so there aren’t real characters just some random ones that don’t matter)
· Jim
· Joe
· Salesman (fast talking B.S.er)
Theme
· People vs. “Moloch”: I would say this could be a theme in this chapter because it was because of Moloch that they were kicked off their land and it was because of the Monster as well. And because they were kicked off their land they had to buy these crappy cars so they could continue to move west so they could try and start their lives over again and gain some more land. And it shows the struggle the people are having because of Moloch.
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