![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Conditions are hopeless unless the workers, whom Elsa has come to admire, band together. ![]() But unscrupulous growers exploit Central Valley workers, wringing labor out of malnourished migrants for meager wages, leaving them impoverished and beholden, scorned by native Californians. Elsa has no choice but to take her two children to California in search of work in the cotton fields and a better life. Life is hard work, but they have fully stocked shelves for over a decade until drought and dust storms ravage the land, when Rafe abandons Elsa and their two children, Loreda and Ant.ĭesperate struggles against nature are portrayed with harrowing images of devastation, dire perils, and death. She ends up pregnant and is taken in to marry Rafe by his kindly immigrant farmer parents. During the 1920s, Elsa’s Texas Panhandle family smothers her as a fragile outcast until she rebels to experience life with Rafe, a farmer. ![]()
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