is same city where oneof the conflicts between Tom Joad and a deputy sheriff occur causing Tom to getarrested. The author tries to tie in what is happening in the world around theminto their lives. Such as the conflict in Hooverville shows the kind of efforts thepresident was making for the people. On the other side of a president thatpeople thought had disappointed them, then later came the president that wassupposed to help them with his “ New Deal.” This president is known as FranklinD. Roosevelt. Though he becomes president in later years at the end of thedecade that the book was written, he still is part of the era. He tried to help hispeople out, and doing so, you can see the slow changes at the end of the bookon how things are starting to come in to place. To get back in the story, the mainProtagonist was Tom Joad because the conflicts in the story did revolve aroundhis life and the people in it. He basically represented the migrant workers andhad a plan to organize people to improve living conditions. He realizes theeffects of capitalism and what it had done for the people on the earth. Eventhough it wasn’t so much a single person, but the government also did play animportant role. The government portrayed as both good and evil in this book, atype of dualism as a matter of fact. Some of the government, such as the stategovernment, despised them and didn’t do much to help them. The police wasalways after Tom and they didn’t care much for the people whose lives wereseverely damaged by capitalism and the dust bowl. On the other hand, theyJoads saw the federal government as “for the people and by the people.” Thegovernment-supplied camp was the only camp that let the people form their owndemocracy within its walls, giving them back their sense of meaning. Well, since most of the people in the book are fictional characters that justportray life as it was for others living under those circum...
