Resumo de The Grapes Of Wrath

The east is a vast collection of farmland filled with few growing
crops and a whole lotta dust. The farmers are making little money
and are forced off of their land by the bank.
Tom Joad walks down the street and gets a ride down the road
by a trucker. After walking toward his house, he meets Casy, a former
preacher who sitting under a tree. They begin to talk and Tom
explains that he was in prison for killing a person that pulled a knife
on him. They walk together to Tom?s house but finds that it is deserted.
A friend Muley Graves tells them that the Joads moved to Uncle John?s house
and planning to move west to California. The next morning they
go Uncle John?s house. There Tom meets his family again who are
relieved since they were planning to leave the next day without Tom.
Tom?s relatives are Granpa and Granma, Tom?s Grandparents, Ma and Pa , Tom?s parents, Noah, Rose of Sharon, Al, Ruthie and Winfield,
Tom?s brother?s and sisters, Connie, Rose of Sharon?s husband, and Casy.
The next morning when they are about to leave, Granpa refuses to go.
The family has to get him drunk in order to force him to go. On the
road, the Joad?s meet the Wilson?s stranded on the highway with a broken
car. Al and Tom fix car. Granpa dies and the Wilson?s
help bury him. The two families decide that would be easier if
they travelled together so they set off. On the road, they stop at
several camps and finds out through some people that there is no work in
California. Still, they push on. In Arizona, they stop by a
river and wash up. There, they are hassled by a policeman.
Noah decides to stay at the river and no one can change his mind.
Mrs. Wilson became sick they decided to stay at the river while the
Joad?s go on. Crossing California, Granma dies and the family has
to bury her a pauper since they are out money.
In California, they stop at a camp filled with other migrants.
There they meet Floyd Knowles explains them that there is no work
and the wages are down. He says that the police will arrest anyone
they don?t like. Connie and Rose talk about their future. Later,
Connie leaves the tent never comes back leaving his pregnant wife.
During the evening, an employer comes to the camp promising work.
Floyd, however, knows the system and that the employer is trying to get
a lot of workers so he can lower the wages. The employer came prepared
with a cop who tries to arrest Floyd but Floyd punches him and runs.
As the cop runs after Floyd, Tom trips him and the cop shoot toward Floyd?s
direction hitting a bystander and shooting off her fingers. Casy
them comes along and kicks the cop in the neck knocking him out.
Everyone runs except Casy who turns himself in as the troublemaker.
The cop threatens that he will burn down the camp at night. The Joad?s
leave that night traveling south to a government camp that they heard about.
Luckily, when they reach there, there is only one spot left.
In the morning, Tom leaves with two people he met at the camp and gets
a job digging ditches for pipes. Their employer warns them that some
people are going to cause trouble in the camp at the dance on Saturday
in attempt to break up the camp. The residents at the camp were ready
for them and the attempt was unsuccessful in breaking up the camp.
Work runs out by the government camp so the Joad?s have to move
on looking for work. They find a peach orchard that needs harvesting
so they go to work there. Tom in the night, sneaks out of the orchard
and finds Casy who is with some other people on strike to raise wages.
Some people come by to break up the strike calling the strikers reds (people
who want higher pay). One person hits Casy alongside the head crushing
him skull and killing him. Tom gets furious and kills the person
that killed Casy but in the struggle, he too gets hit and is bruised and
bleeding. Eventually he evades his persuers and makes it back tothe camp. The Joad?s decide that it?s too dangerous for Tom since
he killed another person so they decide to leave the orchard and find another
place to work while Tom is in hiding until his face heals.
They reach a cotton field that needs picking so they begin working
their while living in a boxcar shared with the Wainwright?s. Al falls
in love with Agnes Wainwright and announces that they are going to get
married. They work there at that cotton field and at another one
when it begin to rain. It rains for several days and floods the valley.
Some men try to divert the water by building a dyke but it breaks when
a fallen tree crashes through it. Meanwhile, Rose of Sharon goes
into labor but gives birth to a dead baby. The water keeps rising
into boxcar So the Joad?s and the Wainwright?s build a platform in
the boxcar above the water to keep from getting wet. After the rain
stop, some of the Joad?s look for higher ground and the wade through chest
deep water toward a barn where they meet boy and his starving father.
The boy explains that the man gave up his food to keep the boy healthy.
Now, the man can?t digest even bread. Rose of Sharon decides to feed
her breast milk to the man.

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