The theme of chapter five is inhumanity because the landowner is hugely unfair to the sharecropper farmers. When they benefit the landowners by producing plenty of crops, then they didn't kick them off the land, however when they removed them from the property. For instance, it is similar to the imperialism because when a native country gives them plenty of resources to a foreign country, they show interest over that country however when they stop benefiting them they are no longer shows interest over that country. The landowner is becoming more reliable to machine such as a tractor to grow cotton in the land instead of crops. According to the “The Grapes of Wrath,” implies that “you know the land’s getting poorer. You know what does cotton
