Noah, Tom’s older brother, abandons the family at this border, choosing instead to subsist on his own. The Wilsons travel with the Joads until the California border, where Sairy becomes too ill to continue. Once on the road, the Joads befriend a migrant couple, Ivy and Sairy Wilson, and shortly thereafter, the cantankerous Grampa Joad dies of a stroke. Pa Joad reveals that the family saw fruit-picking jobs advertised on handbills, and they are heading west to take advantage of these opportunities. When Tom and Casy arrive at Uncle John’s, they find the Joads loading up a car in preparation to leave for California. Muley tells the men that they can find Tom’s family at the home of Uncle John, the brother of Tom’s father, Pa Joad. Muley Graves, a neighbor who has stayed behind, explains to the two men that the farming families have all been evicted by the landowners and the banks, who have repossessed their land and now use tractors to cultivate it. Together, Tom and Casy travel back to the Joad homestead, but discover that it has been abandoned. Casy no longer preaches of virtue and sin, and instead holds the unity and equality of human spirit as his highest ideal. As Tom returns home, he meets Jim Casy, an ex-preacher whom Tom knew as a child.
Tom Joad is a young man from a farming family who has just been paroled from prison, after serving four years on a homicide charge. In Oklahoma during the Great Depression, drought and dust storms-the Dust Bowl-have ruined farmers’ crops and destroyed livelihoods already damaged by the failing economy.
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