"She walked for the family and held her head straight for the family" (pg 204). In the Grapes of Wrath Tom Joad 's family was able to survive many hard ship on the road to California was because of family. Ma wants everyone to stick together and isn't leaving family members behind. Ma Joad tries to keep the family together and not separate. The Joad's family was able to survive because they had each other to help "And then all of a sudden, the family began to function. Pa got up and a lighted another lantern. Noah from a box in the kitchen, brought out the bow-bladed butchering knife and whetted it on a worn little carborundum stone. And he laid the scraper on the chopping block, and the knife beside it. Pa brought two sturdy sticks, each
