Genre
Fiction
Setting and Context
Set in California on the context of capitalist exploitation.
Narrator and Point of View
Third-person narrative
Tone and Mood
Ambitious, optimistic, inspiring
Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonist is Jim Nolan.
Major Conflict
McLeod organizes a radical employees' strike to oppose the landowners' mistreatment of the immigrant workers. The conflict is that to attain such an ambition is a daytime dream.
Climax
When Dan gets into an accident while at work, the property owner refuses to give him medical attention, the incident inspires many workers to join McLeod's workers' party to fight for their rights.
Foreshadowing
The formation and actualization of the Worker's Party are foreshadowed by Dan's unfortunate accident at work.
Understatement
The mistreatment of immigrant workers by the landowners is understated. For instance, besides neglecting the welfare of immigrant workers, the employers are inhuman, as demonstrated in the case of Dan's accident.
Allusions
The story alludes to the challenges the immigrant workers went through at the hands of the landowners before they gathered the courage to fight for their rights.
Imagery
The description of Dan's unfortunate accident paints a picture of the landowners' brutality and inhumane behavior. The owner of the property is evil to the extent that he denies Dan access to medical attention.
Paradox
Dan's injury is paradoxical because despite sustaining pain, his accident plays a critical role in the formation of the worker's union, which in the long run, fights for the rights of the immigrant workers.
Parallelism
N/A
Metonymy and Synecdoche
Worker's union is a metonymy for immigrant workers' reprieve in the long run.
Personification
N/A
