Tom learns that his family has been forced off the land.
Near his home, Tom meets Reverend Jim Casy, a former preacher from his community. Chapter 1: Tom Joad returns home after four years in prison. The family takes refuge from a flood in an abandoned barn, where Rosasharn helps a man dying of hunger, by allowing him to suckle her and drink her dead baby s milk. In the end only Ma, Pa, Rosasharn and the two children remain. Eventually Tom must leave too, or else be caught and sent back to jail. One of the men sent by the employers kills Casy, and Tom kills him in revenge. Tom finds this out when he comes across Casy outside their camp.
Casy becomes involved in a strike that the Joads unwittingly break. Once in California they find that there is little work and that employers are exploiting the large numbers of unemployed by paying starvation wages.
The tragedy is mitigated by moments of kindness within the family, and to and from strangers they meet during their travels. During the journey the family disintegrates both grandparents die, the slow, quiet son Noah drifts away, and the son-in-law Connie abandons his pregnant wife Rosasharn. The whole family travel in an old truck across Colorado and Arizona to California. Tom is joined by a former preacher Casy, who has lost his faith. He finds that his family, tenant farmers, have been pushed off their farm by the bank and are preparing to travel to California. Tom Joad arrives home from jail on parole, after serving a sentence for manslaughter. He died six years later in Summary is the story of the Joad family and their odyssey from Oklahoma to California to escape the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. In 1962 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The movie version of (made in 1940) starred Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. His works Of Mice and Men, and East of Eden have all been made into successful movies. For a period, during the Cold War, he was widely criticized in the United States for his support for the underprivileged and his attention to social issues. During World War II he worked as a war correspondent. He married three times, in 1930, 1943, and His first novel, Cup of Gold, was published in He first received real popular acclaim for his novel Tortilla Flat in Much of his work concerned the plight of America s dispossessed rural population.
Through these varied experiences, he had a good understanding of the lives of the workers he portrayed in his novels. He also had experience as a fruit picker and a ranch worker. After leaving Stanford he went to New York where he worked as a reporter, laborer, apprentice painter, caretaker and surveyor. 1 John Steinbeck About the author John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California in After graduating from high school Steinbeck went to Stanford University but did not complete his studies.
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