In the evening a strange thing happened: the twenty families became one family, the children were the children of all. The loss of home became one loss, and the golden time in the West was one dream.
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 17. This passage shows how migrant families during their time of misfortune can bond together to form one bigger and stronger family. Different families, though not related, reach out to one another and through adversity forge new bonds. By day they are individual families, but at night a wonderful metamorphosis takes place and they are reborn into a collective. They are now one community helping one another achieve the shared dream of a "golden time" in California.