Question

One man, one family driven from the land; this rusty car creaking along the highway to the west. I lost my land, a single tractor took my land. I am alone and I am bewildered. And in the night one family camps in a ditch and another family pulls in and the tents come out. The two men squat on their hams and the women and children listen. Here is the node, you who hate change and fear revolution. Keep those two squatting men apart; make them hate, fear, suspect each other. Here is the anlage of the thing you fear. This is the zygote. For here "I lost my land" is changed; a cell is split and from its splitting grows the thing you hate—"We lost our land." The danger is here, for two men are not as lonely and perplexed as one.
The passage you just read is between two unnamed characters in the book. What do you think is the main idea being expressed in this passage?

Answer 1

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He feels alone and useless he doesn't quite know what to do he feels helpless but even though he has lost everything he still notices other people around him and that they think and the danger they are in

Answer 2

Answer:   The author suggests that mankind is weak alone but strong when working together. What started as a few people migrating turned into a migration of thousands of people. This passage foreshadows the possibility of the weak, dislocated farmers uniting to revolt against the more powerful people. The passage also reveals how farmers may feel helpless until they realize they are not in the dreadful situation alone.

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