From 'I' to 'we'

A short intercalary chapter arguing the politics of the migration. The great owners strike at unions, taxes and government, mistaking results for causes; the cause is hunger multiplied a million times, and the human need to work and create. Man's distinguishing quality is that he stumbles forward and never takes the full step back — so every bomb and every beaten strike is proof the step is being taken. The danger the owners fear begins in a ditch at night, when two dispossessed families camp together and "I lost my land" becomes "we lost our land", and "I have a little food" plus "I have none" becomes "we have a little food". Owning freezes a man into "I" and cuts him off from the "we".