Most Memorial Moment

My most memorial moment was when Ruthie and Winfield went into the bathroom. Where they found things that they were not quit sure what they where. So, Ruthie told Winfield that she had peed in one of them. Then Winfield pulled the handle and water started swirling around in it and they thought he had broken it. So, Winfield makes Ruthie promise to not tell their mother. As soon as they seen their mother Ruthie told her mother that Winfield broke the toilet. Then when their mother goes in and has them show her exactly what they did. She tells them that they didn't break it that is just how it works.

Summary Chapters 8-16

Chapter 8: In chapter eight, Tom and the preacher walked down the road. They were making their way to Uncle John's house, where the family had gone. When they are walking up to the house, Tom seen Pa in the back of the truck, loading things to be taken to the auction. Tom, Pa, and Jim went to the door of the house and seen Ma at the sink cleaning the dishes. Tom just stood there looking at his mother from outside the house while Pa told her he had invited guests for dinner. Then, she was really surprised to see that it was her Tom that had come home and found them before they had left. When grandma, had heard the news about Tom being home she shouted "Pu-raise Gawd fur vittory!" Grandpa is a very blunt and funny character. When Tom asks him how he has been he says, "Full a piss and Vinegar." Now, the family is sitting around and catching Tom up on what he has missed within the past three years.


Chapter 9: In chapter nine, it talks about the auction that they family is going to sell their unmovable possessions. So, they can use the money for their journey to California. Once they got to the auction, they sold their possessions that they could not take with them. Such as; the stove, their bedsteads, chairs and tables, and tubs and tanks.

Chapter 10: In chapter ten, Tom sticks around the house while the others go to the auction. While Tom is at the house, it gives him time to have a talk with his mother. She asks him, if they were mena to him in McAlesters, and if they abused him. After the family returns, they sat around talking about when they were going to leave for California.They decide that they are going to leave first thing in the morning, and they are going to pack tonight. First, they have to slaughter the two pigs and put them in the salt kegs. this helps to take out bacteria and keep it fresh on the road. the next morning they are getting ready to take off when Muley Graves stops by to wish them good luck and pa gives him the two dogs that cant go along. Then they go to get grandpa, and he tells them that he aint goin. So, they give him so coffee with medicine in it to knock him out, so that way they can get him on the truck to go.

Chapter 11: In this chapter, it describes how vaccant and lonely the town is left. Steinbeck is now trying to get you to kind of imagine what it would be like if you were walkin through the town at this point.

Chapter 12: Here Steinbeck is now telling you what it was like on highway 66 with car breaking down on the side of the road. How hard it was to live in this time period and showing you thing that really did happen. So, in a way he just setting the scene in a different place now.

Chapter 13: In this chapter, the family is all packed and ready to leave for california, but there is one small thing holding them back. This is that grandpa says that he is not coming with them. So, Tom comes up with a way to get him to go. Ma goes and gets come caugh medicine and puts it in gandpas coffee, so that he falls asleep and they take him with them.

Chapter 14: This chapter talks about how the hardships that happened to most families on their way west.

Chapter 15: This chapter is where a family pulls up to a dinner and asks the waitress to used her fauset andto get some bread. So, you see the first sign of friendliness.

Chapter 16: In this chapter the family meets another family. They are the Wilsons. This family consisted of Ivey and Sairy Wilson. They begin to travel with the Wilsons as well in this chapter.

Summary of Chapters 1-7

Within these chapters you meet the main character which is Tom Joad. He has just recently been released from prision where he had spent the last four years of his life. He was put in prison for a homicide and was supposed to get in seven years but got out early for good behavior. While Tom was hitch-hiking his way home he met a truck driver that gave him a ride down the road. Before Tom got out of the truck he told the driver what crime he had committed and went on his way. As Tom was walking he found a turtle walking down the side of the road. Tom picked it up to bring it to the children. Tom also stumbles upon an old friend by the name of Jim Casey, sitting in the shade of a tree in the field. Jim Casey is an ex-preacher that has lost his calling. He used to baptize little girls then take them, and lay with them in the fields. As Tom and Casey nears the house they notice that it has somewhat been pushed over and no one is around. They are now wondering what is happening. While they are sitting by the house a man starts walking there way. As he comes closer tom sees that he knows the man it is Muley Graves. Muley tells them that Toms family has been run of by the bank and has gone to stay with Toms Uncle John. Now, Tom and the preacher realize that they need to get to Uncle Johns' house before they leave to. While the three men are sitting and eating they notice a car coming so they go and hide in the cotton fields. Tom and Casey head to Uncle Johns' house, and when they get there they hear what is going on and why they have to leave.