Many people spend their entire lives looking for their family. A family to some people is the most necessary thing in life. The novel The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, is based on the collapse and fall of families. Family is something that is always there even if you don't notice it.
You start to see the downfall of family in chapter 6 when Joad went back to his house. He came back to his hometown and saw his moms house totally abandoned and wrecked. "Somepin's wrong," he said. "I can't put my finger on her. I got an itch that somepin's wronger'n hell. Just this house pushed aroun' an' my folks gone."(57) Not understanding what was going on he went looking around for anybody or anything, going into the barn he finds Muley and was somewhat relieved. Tom, Muley, and Joad made a fire out of
In chapter 21, the workers are in California and the mild people of California find in the Okies what they have yet to experience- fear and desperation. Sensing the extent to which the migrants are willing to work, the locals begin to fear for their own jobs, and most importantly, for their own property. In fearful defense, they attack the Okies as marauders who mean to destroy both populations through their desperation. This fear transforms into hostility, which reveals itself in the story through the deputies and managers who abuse and assault the Joads, as well as other migrant families in the workers' camps. Even as the people move they still try and keep their families close due to their importance.
the loose wood on the house and made a fire to cook some rabbit. They were around the fire eating and talking like a family would around the din
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