d by a more general description of the sale of items by impoverished families who intend to leave Oklahoma for California, as the Joads expect to do. The Joads plan to go to California based on flyers they found advertising work in the fields there. Jim Casy asks to accompany the Joads to California so that he can work with people in the fields rather than preach at them.
             As the family is about to leave Granpa Joad throws a fit, refusing to go. The family gives him medicine that knocks him unconscious so they can take him with them. The subsequent chapters describes the vacant houses that remain after the Oklahoma farmers leave for work elsewhere, as well as the conditions on Route 66, the highway that stretches from Oklahoma to California. Almost immediately into the journey, the Joad family loses two members. The first victim is the family dog, which is run over during their first stop. The second is Grampa Joad, who dies of a stroke. The Wilson family helps the Joads when Grampa dies, and the two families decide to make the journey to California together. Steinbeck follows this with a larger statement about the growing of a consciousness among the working class, who shift their veiws from I to we. When the Wilson's car breaks down. Tom and Al find the necessary part to fix the car at a local junk yard.
             When the Joads and Wilsons reach California they are immediately subjected to intimidation by police officers who derisively call them and other migrant laborers "Okies." At the first camp where they stay, Granma becomes quite ill. The police force them out of the camp, but the Wilsons choose the possibility of arrest because Sairy Wilson is too sick to continue. The next time that the police stop the Joads on their travels, Ma Joad forces them to let them pass without inspection. She does this to hide from the police the fact that Granma has died. Steinbeck follows this with a description of the history of California...