Grapes Of Wrath Book Report

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that he got in a fight with a guy at a dance and when he tried to brandish a
knife, Tom hit him on the head with a shovel. The truck driver lets him off at his father’s
farm but he finds it abandoned. He does meet up with an old friend Jim Casy who used to
be a preacher. So Tom and Jim head down to his uncle’s to locate his family. A day later
he finds them all about to leave for California. Tom decides to accompany his family to
California although it means breaking his parole. Packed tightly into a truck, they begin
their journey down Route 66, little realizing that they are part of a huge migration into an
unwelcoming region of the US. The Joads encounter friends along the road, but they also
wander into adversity. They meet the Wilsons, who drive along with them to Arizona, and
various other Oklahoma families.
This Journey is not easy though, there is much suffering to be dealt with. Tom’s
grandfather dies of a stroke at the beginning of the trip. And his dogs that he ...

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them that she does not have enough
food to feed all of them, but she will let them scrape the pot with sticks. Floyd tells the
men that there is work up north, picking fruit. They will have to travel 200 miles, and the
Joads would rather not move again. They encounter a contractor who offers them a job
picking fruit up north. Floyd asks to see the man’s contract, and the contractor calls a
deputy sheriff out from his car accusing Floyd of agitating the workers. Tom and Casy
knock the deputy unconscious. Later Casy is taken to jail and the camp is torched for
"red" in influences.
The family moves on to a government camp, where they find running water and a
well-established ...

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