Part 1 of Essay
The Grapes of Wrath is about the Joad family’s flight from their repossessed Oklahoma farmlands in search of the dreamland of California: a place where you can eat all the fruit you want and where work is plentiful. It begins with Tom Joad, the oldest son, getting out of prison only to find that farms have been abandoned ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... the family to split up. The family stops at a rest area to sleep, and after the car is fixed, Al, Tom, and Casy join them. During this time, a man who’s already been to California and is on his way back explains that there are thousands of starving people but no work. Pa and Tom dismiss what he says and decide to continue. When the family finally reaches California, they stop near a stream before going across the desert. The Joad men go in to bathe and are soon joined by two other men. One man says they are leav ....