Themes:
Connection to the land, importance of family
Characters:
Summary:
We see that the center of the family has moved from the house to the truck. As stated on pg.99 "The house was dead, and the fields were dead; but this truck was the active thing, the living principle." This starts the change in the connection to the land. As they move closer to california they are moving just as far away from home both in distance and symbol. They move from a man made scene to a machine scene. We also see a foreshadow on pg. 101. It says "Some folks figgered it was a good respectable thing to have a preacher along. Ef somebody died, preacher burried em. Weddin' come due, or overdue, an' there's your preacher. baby come, an' you got a christener right under the roof." There are two old people traveling that could die, and a pregnant woman. And who knows maybe somebody will get married too.
Grampa Joad doesn't want to leave the land so they drug his coffee and when he falls asleep, they load him up and take off.
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