A fallen preacher who too often succumbed to temptation became the a leader of.

             In John Steinbeck"s The Grapes of Wrath, Jim Casy left the ministry when.

             he realized that he did not believe in the Christian ideas about sin, just as Jesus turned.

             away from his religion and its arrogant ridge beliefs. Casy was a mixture of the.

             goodness of Jesus Christ and the weakness of the common man.

             Jim Casy can be seen as a modern day Christ figure. The initials of his name, J.C.,.

             are the same as those of Jesus Christ. Casy and Jesus Christ both saw a common.

             goodness in the average man and saw everyone as holy. ".I figgered, 'maybe it's all men.

             an' all women we love: maybe that's the Holy Sperit- the human sperit- the whole.

             shebang. Maybe all men got one big soul ever'body's a part of." Casy believed that we all.

             have a small part of a larger soul, and everybody are holy and therefore equal. .

             Casy believed that every one are created equal no matter what their appearances,.

             social class, or status might be. He showed this by never speaking a harmful word.

             towards anyone even when he sacrificed his own life to help raise the wages of migrant.

             workers, and didn"t hesitate to keep on fighting when he was called slanderous names,.

             such as Okies and Reds. Like Christ, Casy was jailed and later he aroused the hostility of.

             the authority and was brutally slain. Casy"s last words were "You don' know what you're.

             a-doin," which are ironically similar to Christ when he said to his crucifers, ".they know.

             not what they do." .

             Although Jim Casy has seemingly always been a man of God, he battled with his.

             faith throughout the book. He began to have doubts about God, Jesus, and the afterlife.

             altogether. He went from a man of God to a man of the people. .

             "An I says, 'Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' thought an' finally.

             I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch of stories,.

             but I only love people.