describes the generalized families who must sell their sentimental goods at absurdly low prices. These chapters present the situations which the Joads come across very soon. The Joads have to leave their land and sell all their things. Pa dreads telling Ma, in chapter ten, the price he sold their things for. Grandpa threatens to kill the tractor driver who was plowing their land just like the tenant farmer who Steinback described. The Joads had to buy a used car in order to go to California. The interchapters provided general social situations which Joads had to face. Interchapters nineteen and twenty one the development of land ownership in California. Chapter nineteen explains how the Americans took California from the Mexicans and people known as "squatters" acquired lots of land and thought of it as their own. They hired people to work the land and became great owners. The problem was that many people from Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas began to arrive and the owners didn't want them to become "squatters" so they hated them and called them "Okies". These owners cut wages in order to pay policemen to guard and protect their property. In the next chapter, the Joads are called Okies and a young man explains to Tom that the people are afraid that the Okies will get organized if they stay in one place for long enough so they push them around. This man also explains how no one can get people together to organize because the cops will arrest whoever starts up. Chapter twenty one describes how the people with small jobs in California are afraid of the Okies because they don't want to lose their jobs. The big companies could make wages very low because people were starving and would work for low wages. The following chapter explains how Tom met Timothy Wallace who told him that he would only have his job for a couple of days and his wages were being cut. The interchapters describe general situations and the chapters after th...
