John Steinbach's The Grapes Of Wrath

In the opening chapter of one through eleven of “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbach, tells of the Dust Bowl drought that swept through Oklahoma and how it affected the homes and livelihood of the sharecroppers (Steinbach 2-4). Tom Joad, in chapter two, finds himself riding with a truck driver after having served four years in prison at a place called McAlester. He had been locked up after being in a drunken brawl and killing a man (Steinbach 4-12). Chapter three tell of a turtle crossing the highway and how a truck driver tried to intentionally run the turtle over and barely missed crushing the turtle. The turtle was finally able to make it across after much struggling (Steinbach 14-16). Chapter four tell of Tom Joad’s by chance meeting …show more content…
Muley explained that he did not want to leave and felt like a ghost left wondering the lands. Tom explained to both Muley and Casey that if he left to California then it would mean that he would be violating his parole. As the conversation began to die down between the three men, Muley explains they should find a place to hide since they were considered now to be trespassing, and they all three found a cave to stay the night in (Steinbach 40-60). Chapter seven goes further to describe the second-hand car dealers and reproduces the conversation of a dealer who sells second-hand cars to the migrant families (Steinbach 61-66) . Tom is reunited with his family in chapter eight and learns of the plans to leave for California (Steinbach 67-85). The ninth chapter describes the migrants, in general, selling everything that could be sold and burning the rest of their belongings in preparation for the journey to California. In chapter ten, the Joads make their own preparations for the journey to California (Steinbach 86-89). They slaughter and salt down pigs in order to have food along the