Summary: the truck continues westward and eventually hits the paved highway. This makes Al worry about possible things that could cause the truck to breakdown. Al and Ma talk about what is going to happen when they get to California and Ma told Al that all that he needs to worry about is what is going on right now, and not what is in the future. They continued to drive until the sun went down and then they pulled over at a camp. They ended up camping next to a couple from Kansas whose car had broken down. The woman, Sarah or Sairy, was sick but her and her husband invited the Joad family in anyway. Then Grandpa get sick, suffers a stroke and dies. Since it costs 40 dollars to report someone dying, they decide to bury him during the night. Then Tom wrote down the cause of grandpa’s death on a page from the couple’s bible. Then, during supper, the couple talks about how Sairy being sick and their car troubles have slowed them down. So Al and Tom say they will fix their car and they suggest that the two families travel together. Sairy and Ivy refute the idea at first but then Ma convinced them that it was a good idea.
Themes:
Connection to Land
Machine vs. Nature (Car runs over the dog)
Meaning of family
Characters
Sairy and Ivy, a couple from Kansas
The Joad family
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