Chapter 16
Summary: The Joads and Ivy and Sairy travel together across Oklahoma to Texas, then through New Mexico. Roseasharn tells Ma that Connie wants to take classes and get a job in a factory. Ma really doesn’t want to split up the family though. Then Al realizes that a connecting rod is broken on the car. Tom suggests that a couple of the men stay behind and fix the car while the rest of the family goes onto California. Ma refuses and says that the family needs to stay together. She threatens to hit anyone who make them split up the family, so they all decide to stay together. Al and the rest of the family head over to a camp, while Tom and Casy find a new connecting rod. They went to a junkyard and bought a connecting rod and a socket wrench. They replace the rod and drive over to the camp. They wanted to charge Tom and Casy $50 to go in so instead they park outside and walk to meet their family. Then they all talked about what lies ahead for them in California.
Themes:
People vs. “Moloch”
Strength of women
Importance of family
Characters:
The Joad family
The One eyed man – a symbol of the fact that all the farmers are getting kicked off the land but they aren’t giving up, where as all this man has lost was an eye and he gave up. People vs. “Moloch.”
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