Question

Read this excerpt from the grapes of wrath:behind the tractor rolled the shining disks, cutting the earth with blades — not plowing but surgery, pushing the cut earth to the right where the second row of disks cutit . . .which word or words most creates a negative tone toward the tractor?

Answer 1

In the except when the narrator says “not plowing but surgery” shows how the people see the that the earth is suffering, the tractor should plow the earth in the natural process for sowing, instead of that this mechanical and inorganically thing hurts the earth like doing surgery on it.