rdinary to cause doubt in the reader’s mind.6.This story is often a formula story. Anyone with knowledge of the time period that the story takes place in should find it is not difficult to predict that the Joad family is going to have to relocate to California because of the dust bowl in Oklahoma. It is also very predictable that they would have a hard time finding work and food with the migrant worker population so vast. Throughout the novel I found that I could generally think of just about everything that the Joad family went through. However, one event in the novel was not predictable. I never would have thought that an ex-convict could have been so loyal to his friend’s cause. I am speaking of course of Tom Joad and his decision to take on the work of organizing migrant workers after Jim Casey is killed. Also most readers would expect a happy ending for the Joad family after enduring so much during the course of the book. The book ends with some hope for the future of the Joad family as Rose of Sharon nurses a sickly man to health. ...
