along he grew tired from the hot Oklahoma sun and stopped at a tree along the road and met an old friend named Jim Casy. Jim used to be a preacher but, had lost the calling. Now Jim just bummed around the area and theorized about life. The only information Jim was able to give Tom, was that things were changing and people were leaving, due to the drought. In the end of the chapter Jim decided to go with Tom to his old house to visit.
             The chapter discussed a political monster. Steinbeck talked about the banks and how the banks ordered the people off the land. The men could do nothing. The wanted to rotate the crops but, they were out of time. There was nothing left that they could do. The corporations were the monsters and the banks worked for the corporations. The banks sent out tractors at the corporate commands. They sent tractors to till the soil and make it into one big field, plowing over anything it the way; and the families fled.
             Tom and Casy went to the house and found it deserted. The house was leaning and knocked off it's foundation. The tools were gone, the water trough dry and cracked and the well dry. There was cotton planted right up around the house where there never was any before. The only thing that was left was a gray cat. As they sat on the porch a man came along, just walking created a huge cloud of dust. The man's name was Muley graves, he had lost his farm also but decided to stay. Tom was lucky that Muley stopped, Muley explained how a man came and told them kindly to get off the land and the man was sorry but it wasn't his decision. He also brought along rabbits that they cleaned and ate for dinner. After dinner a deputy showed up, and they ran out to the cotton field and hid. The deputy would not come out in the field, because Muley had hit him one time. After the deputy left they went down by the creek and slept in a shallow cave.
             The chapter discusses the car sal...