Summary: The Joad family reaches California, and wants to cross the desert that night. Some of the family bathes in the river to cool off while Ma and Rosashorn sit with Granma who’s ill and hallucinating. The family realizes their money is running low, and another man in the river with the Joad’s isn’t helping their situation. He basically tells them the honest truth about California, and they learn what the word “Okie” means. Noah leaves the family, and heads down river. Ma feels like the more the family separates the more she starts to lose it. That night, they run into an agricultural inspector who wanted to check if they had any produce. He allows them to pass because Ma convinced him that Granma was sick, even though she had unknowingly died earlier that night.
Themes:
Strength of Women
People Vs. Moloch
Importance of Land and Family
People:
Joad Family
Police Man – Ma almost hits him over the head when he tells them they have to be gone by that time the next day
Man in River – tells them about California and how it’s not worth going to.
Agricultural Inspector
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