Thus they changed their social life – changed as in the whole universe only man can change. They were not farm men any more, but migrant men…And on the road the panic overcame some of the families…But most of the families changed and grew quickly into the new life.
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 17. The injustices of the Dust Bowl migration are underlined here, as we learn how the lives of people are changed drastically overnight. The tenant farmers become migrants. In their bid for survival, they have no other choice.