"Movin' 'cause they got to. That's why folks always move. Movin' 'cause they want somepin better'n what they got. An that's the on'y way they'll ever get it. Wantin' it an' needin' it, they'll go out an' git it." (128)
This quote has given me a better view of what the people during the Great Depression went through. Majority of people move because they feel they can have better lives in the future. This made me remember when my dad used to live in Manteca; closer to me. Eventually, he had to move because his job was transferred to Sacramento, which instead of an hour difference from here, it's a two hour drive. He either had to move or lose his job. In result of this our "father daughter relationship" weakened from there. This opened my eyes to how unfair it is considering that he had to leave family and go continue on with his life and career just to have a well paying job. But sometimes in order to survive you need to make these types of decisions. Unfortunately, that's how a lot of people are now, they decide to leave a home or place that they've been in there whole lives just for a certain job. I feel that that's a really hard decision to make, but a lot of people surprisingly would rather leave their own family than lose their job and their potential future. They try there best to succeed in what they do for a living so that they can not only give themselves a better life but provide for their families. Then there's people who can't find jobs here because of the economy and it's even hard to get one resulting in not having a job at all. Connecting all of this made me realize that even though the Great Depression happened in the 1930s people are faced with the same type of situations even today.
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