Summary

Chapter Thirty-Three begins from Loreda’s perspective as she wakes before dawn, and tells Ike about the meeting that Friday. The perspective changes to Elsa as that night they read a letter from Tony and Rose, and Loreda and Elsa talk about Elsa’s first family, and if they will ever see them again. On Friday night, Elsa and the kids sneak out of camp for the strike meeting at the barn. People nervously start to arrive, and eventually there is a crowd of over 500. Jack speaks to them about how the Mexicans picked everything in California first, invisible. Then when the crash of 1929 happened they were forced out, but then the Dust Bowl happened, and they took the Mexicans’ place in the fields. Jack says “Rights . . . They matter in America, don’t they?” (409). He explains they have the right to...