The purpose for this theme was clarify the shifting from an individual to sense of community. Steinbeck portrays the daily transformation of the Dust Bowl migrants out on the road. By day, they are individual families battling westward. By night, they are a group and self-supporting unit on a campground. A guitar is a great example to indicate the possibilities that there could be any gathering of relocating families on any night. There are customs, and the families experience joy, misery, torment, and music as one. They make relinquishes and administer to one another. The transformation can easily be detected with the little social orders framing with around 20 families all contributing smalley with open hearts and supportive mentalities. On the road to their journey, the traveling itself seems to be the daily routine and the reality to the migrants. In this way, they frame a sort of more distant family and take part and ceremonies around evening time like no other. Steinbeck gives the migrants this knowledge to what the people groups lives were similar to when drudging and making a trip ceased to show what these individuals were truly like. Since when the night finished and morning came, the fun halted and they were determined and ruthless, not anxious of anyone who may attempt and prevent their endeavors of arriving to California. Another transformation was the timidness or …show more content…
The purpose of this theme is to demonstrate the significant ties and nuanced connections that create through family’s relationship, kinship, and identities. A community gives its own particular punishments such as murderous fight and ostracism. The worse punishment is ostracism as it shows the exclusion out of the gathering, constraining them to lose the assurance, backing and association of the gathering to make sure that everyone followed the rules and obeyed the rights and privacies of people. Parallel chapter is also present in this chapter by explaining on the solidarity through mutual hardship that the majority of the migrant workers are confronted with. These farmers boycott together for the benefit of the entire to make social solidarity and cooperate towards their basic objective of achieving California looking for openings for work. A guitar unwrapped from a cover and tuned-and the melodies, which were the greater part of the general population, were sung in the evenings. Men sang the words and ladies murmured the tunes" (pg 194) This distinct symbolism truly gives the migrants a visual of what the groups of individuals were similar to and their capacity to unite and have a good time in a terrible circumstance. Similarly to chapter 17, the scene where the Wilsons’ car break down, Sairy Wilson recommends that the Joads go ahead without them. Mama Joad rejects and claims that they