They are traveling in a used truck that is in terrible shape, and they join a motley parade of junkers heading on Route 66 to California. The Grapes of Wrath plot develops with the move west of the Joad family. He finds his parents packing everything they can take into a car, so they can head west and pick fruit in California. The neighbor tells Tom that his family has traveled to his Uncle John’s farm, and the next day Casy and Tom go there. After talking to a neighbor, Tom learns that the banks have taken the farms away from the families, who have headed west to find work in California. Jim joins Tom on the journey home, only to find that his family has left – and that other farms in the area have been abandoned. On the way, he meets an ex-preacher named Jim Casy. After four years of prison for manslaughter, Tom Joad is heading back to the farm where his family lives. The Grapes of Wrath novel begins with the return of the Joads’ prodigal son.
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