People Cannot Break if they Come Together
             John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath is a detailed insight into our history of the 1930's and the great dust bowl when migrant farmers from Oklahoma went to California in search of work, new homes, and life itself. John Steinbeck expresses many of his values in the novel. One of those values is the need to work together to achieve a common goal. This particular value was shown from the beginning to the end and quite possibly is one of the most important. In John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath there are several instances where the value of working together is shown.
             First, there is a scene where Muley Graves who is a stubborn man that lives near the Joad family. He has been evicted from his house but still roams the land. When two of the novel's main characters: Tom Joad and Jim Casey run into him, they end up spending the night with him. Tom and Jim are both hungry, however Muley is the one with food. Muley says, "what I mean, if a fella's got somepin to eat an' another fella's hungry-why, the first fella ain't got no choice".(66). Muley ends up sharing his two hard earned rabbits with Tom and Jim. This greatly shows Steinbeck's value of working together and unity. If two men are hungry, and one man has food, they might as well all eat because it would be senseless for only one to eat.
             Secondly, when Tom and Jim get to the Joad's house they have a meeting to decide about the trip to California. When Jim is brought up in the conversation, Pa asks if they can even feed another mouth. Ma replies, "It ain't kin we? It's will we?... I never heerd tell of no Joads or no Hazletts , neither, ever refusin' food an' shelter or a lift on the road to anybody who asked."(139). They ask Jim to join the meeting, which is like his induction to the family. The Joads are showing Stein...