"If you’re in trouble or hurt or need – go to poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones."
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 26. Ma Joad says this to the store worker who lends her ten cents to buy sugar, when he learns that she hasn’t enough money. Her comment touches on the theme of kindness. According to Ma, the poor community will help you quicker when in trouble or need, not the rich with their greater resources. The reason she didn’t have money left for sugar is that the store owners raised their food prices.