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Edward Weston's //Tomato Field, 1939// reminds me of this particular Grapes of Wrath passage. This section of writing has to do with the dust bowl and how when it happened, all the corn fields were destroyed. Many people farmed on these fields and lost all their profit. The fields were just fields on top of fields of the same crop; the men worked the same jobs and the women all did the same chores while the children learned how to behave and work themselves. This photograph by Weston really amplifies this whole idea of repetion with the rows of tomato patches throughout the image. The photograph seems to have be taken in the daytime. The plants looks alive and ever growing. This is the difference between the two works. The book shows a dying nature of corn while the photograph shows the live of the tomato.

Both works, the photograph and the novel, have a central theme of monontony. The fields are repetitious and are sameness. There is no variety or change. The tomatoes are all tomatoes and the corn fields are all corn. The houses working families live in have no unique qualities; nor does their work. The fields are dry and plain; the work is tiresome and neverchanging. Yet seasons come and go. The photograph, when examined closely, even though it is monotonous, shows very subtle differences in each tomato plant making each slightly unique from another, just like how each field, or even each person, is not totally the same in the book.