"Sure, nice to look at, but you can’t have none of it. They’s a grove of yella oranges – an’ a guy with a gun that got the right to kill you if you touch one."
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 18. Looks are deceiving, the man swimming in the Colorado River warns Pa Joad, who asks if it’s nice in California. It may be beautiful to look at, the man warns, but landowners control the land and will shoot you if you touch one of their oranges. The man suggests that California as a land of opportunity and riches for migrants is a great deception.