There is one time that Ma find herself alone with Granma and Rose of Sharon, in the tent, waiting for the men to come back, and suddenly a police man arrives. He threatens and insults Ma trying to force her to leave. In her anger, she takes a skillet and warns the man that he must leave ashamed for in her country they were free and no one had the right to speak to them like that. He leaves, with first diminishing Ma by calling her an unwanted Okie in the state of California, not “her country”. (Steinbeck, pgs. 213-214)
---Alejandra Lopez
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Perhaps the word "warn" isn't strong enough; if I were you I would use "threatens".
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