Grapes of Wrath: Steinbeck manifesto (post 2 of 2 GoW posts)

The healing angel read out chapter 14--a two-page chapter. Read it with feeling, read it like he was Martin Luther King in the pulpit, and it's written in a way that demands that style of reading:

The western land, nervous under the beginning change. The Western States, nervous as horses before a thunder storm. The great owners, striking at the immediate thing, the widening government, the growing labor unity; striking at new taxes, at plans; not knowing these things are results, not causes. R...