Jim went from a man who did not know the purpose of his life to someone who wanted to fight for the laborers and the workers’ right. The strikers were united in a way that they all suffered from similar things and had some issues. Furthermore, they not only worked under the unfair bosses, but they also worked together. When Jim came, he also became part of their community. He worked under the unfair growers all day and came back tired. He felt the pain that the strikers were feeling and was angered. He helped the strikers by joining them to beat up the “scabs.” I believe that that event brought him closer to them and their fight against the growers. At the end of the novel, he became just as greedy as them; however, in different way. The growers kept decreasing the wages to increase their profit. Jim became greedy and frantic because he wanted the strike to succeed and wanted the strikers to get their rights.
I totally see what you mean when you say that Jim became greedy. I think that Jim was like them because he too experienced unfairness pretty much his whole life, and I such the picker as well as Jim have had financial hardships.
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