Chap.10:
Summary- Since everyone has left for town, Tom and Ma start talking about California. Tom warns his mother that he heard there wasn't as much good work as everyone is saying there is. But Ma tells him about the handbill, and the subject is changed when Grandpa comes down and Ma helps him dress. The rest of the family arrive back from town pretty upset because they only made $18 off of all there belongings. They all meet by the car for a family meeting, Tom brings up that Casey wants to go to California with them and Grandpa says that bringing a preacher might be bad luck but they decide that he can come. The family begins to pack up for there trip and Ma starts salting the meat. The family starts getting ready to leave, and Muley shows up and Grandpa decides he wants to stay and live on the land like him. But the family slips medicine in his coffe, and the family leaves the farm.
Characters:
Tom
Casey
Ma joad
Old Tom Joad
Al
Rose of Charon
Connie
Muley
Noah
Ruthie
Winfield
Grandma
Grampa
Themes:
Importance of Land to the people- The land has no longer become the center point for the family, it is now there truck because they are being forced to leave. The land is so important to Grampa though that he decides he wants to stay and live on it because he is the land.
Importance of family- Family is very important to the Joads, and each person has an individual role which shows in there family meeting.
Chapter 11:
Summary- After the farmers leave their land, the land in a way loses its importance. The new workers do not have a connetction to the land, all they do is drive a tractor over it. The men ar no longer one with the land, and all of there old houses have been taken over by animals and other things.
Characters:
Not main characters
Theme:
We vs. I- all the we, the old farmers, have left and now the farms have been taken over by the I and the importance of the land to the people is lost.
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