together and resolves the situation that the troublemakers presented peacefully and strategically. This theme of strength in numbers is brought up again, only this time with tactile proof that if the migrants band together and take a stand, they can make a difference. Summary
• The Joads arrive at the new camp. This is a government camp where community elected officials run the camp by creating laws and punishing those who disobey.
• The family's new neighbors, Timothy and Wilkie Wallace, invite Tom to work with them.
• The owner who the men work for. Mr. Hines, tells the men he must lower their wage or else the bank will not renew his crop loan. Hines also warns them that the Farmers Association is going to start trouble at a dance in the
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• Conflict and Contradictions: Ma sees that Pa is losing his strength and will to push on. Ma decides it is best to anger him, by acting as the new leader, to get him infuriated. One would not expect this, but Pa does find his strength through being angered.
• Aha Moment: When Jim Casy attended jail he saw how when people came together how effective it can be. Therefore, he comes to the realization that he wants to take his beliefs in bring them to life. He is participating in a strike due to this realization, hoping to make a difference in numbers. Summary
• Chapter 25 discusses the major difference from farming from the heart and farming for profit. Steinbeck discusses how a small farmer can pour his sweat and passion into the land he farms but cannot afford to harvest his crops. Therefore large landowners take the land, and any food that cannot be gathered is destroyed.
• A month has passed since the Joads have arrived at Weedpatch camp, and none of the men have found work. Ma says they must leave to find jobs because the food is running low and Rosasharn's baby is due
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In the first chapter, it is a drought that destroys the land. The men are outside thinking and the women are watching the men cautiously. However, this time it is torrential rain that strikes the land, flooding the fields and putting people out of farm work. The men are outside thinking once more, and the women watch them. Steinbeck is using a similar structure as the first chapter to display once again a tragic incident that harms the land.
• Contrasts and Contradictions: After losing her baby, Rosasharn could not provide her offspring with life. However, she sees a stranger in dire need, and she does not hesitate to help by providing what she should have given to her baby, to this man. This is something one would not expect. Summary
• The Joads are able to live in one of the boxcars because they are one of the first families that get a job picking cotton. They share the car with another family, the Wainwrights.
• While Ma is making dinner, Winfield confides to her that Ruthie got into a tussle and boasted to the other children that her big brother was hiding because he killed two men.
• Ma goes to see Tom who is hiding in a cave and informs him what Ruthie has done. She tells Tom that he must go far away. Tom agrees with her.
• Tom decides he wants to continue the work Casy began, and go around, joining strikes and every human action around, as he says.