n' but set aroun'.' Al said, 'Ain't no reason for -' Casy said softly, 'If you mess in this your whole fambly, all your folks, gonna get in trouble. I don' care about you. But your ma and your pa, they'll get in trouble. Maybe they'll send Tom back to McAlester.'" (Page 342) Casy further strengthens his morals by becoming a rebel against the authorities. He leads a strike against a pay decrease out of a peach farm, and when men come to do him in, he doesn't step away, but simply pleads his case. "'Listen,' he said. 'You fellas don' know what you're doin'. You're helpin' to starve kids.' 'Shut up, you red son-of-a-bitch.' A short heavy man stepped into the light. He carried a new white pick handle. Casy went on, 'You don' know what you're a-doin'.'"(page 495) Even as he sees the man me
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