... and to always move on no matter what. Her determination keeps the Joad family together. Ma's ultimate goal is to keep the family together as one. While being occupied by Grandma's sickness, Noah decides to stay back by the river and live on catching fish. Ma responds, "Family's fallin' apart I don' know. Seems like I can't think ... novel, Ma struggles to hide her emotions from her family. Lovingly, she tries to avoid expressing herself. In conclusion, Ma is an intensely compassionate character. After Grandma's death, Ma decides to keep it to herself so she would not have to worry her fam...

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... . Ma Joad, Tom's mother, was the one who kept the family together. Tom tired to leave at times early on in the story, but she kept him around. Even after Grandma and Grandpa Joad's death, she kept the family together. As Pa starts to dwell in a depression, she rises as the head of the family, and at the very end she ... jail, when really he got out on parole. Moreover, Tom finds out that his sister, Rose of Sharon, is married to a guy named Connie and is pregnant. Right before supper, Grandma Joad, a devoutly religious woman, has Casy bless the food even though he is not a preacher. The ...

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... death came the arrival and the union of the Joads with the Wilson's adhering to Jim Casey's "one big soul" theory. The second death that he used was that of Grandma Joad. Her death was significant because it brought about the respect for Ma Joad as a strong leader in the family. She lied to the boarder patrol in order to make ... sure her family got across safely. Grandma's death also brought about changes in the Joads life. If grandma Joad hadn't died, and Ma Joad hadn't lied to the border patrol they wouldn't have reached California where they are thrust into a different economic area...

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... efforts, John still is not able to console himself. When they get to Uncle John's house, Tom reunites with his family. Pa and Ma Joad are also there, along with Grandma and Grandpa Joad, and his brothers. Ma and Pa do not notice that Tom is there until he tells them that he is on parole. Ma is worried that prison ... in desperate need of medial attention. He therefore let's them cross into the valley. Later, Ma tells the family that Grandma has been dead, even before the inspection. Because Ma and Pa Joad do not have enough money for a burial for Grandma Joad, they drop her body off in ...

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... minds, now most people are paranoid when they travel on airplanes, go big events, and just in general. It is fitting that grandma and grandpa never made it to California because it was a second chance for the Joads. And Grandma and grandpa would have made it harder to survive. The family got more food with two less people to feed. With living ... ...

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... to California. First of all, they had very little money to do anything with. This caused many problems within itself especially when more terrible things started to happen such as Grandma and Grandpa dying off. In order to have a proper funeral for their loved ones they had to pay money so both of them died nameless. Through situations like this, the ... ...

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... lives where they had left off. The journey was a long one, filled with losses all along the way. During the trip Grandpa Joad passed away, and shortly thereafter, so did Grandma Joad. Also along the travel, Noah Joad leaves the family and heads off on his own, and because he knows he cannot give his wife what she dreams of, Connie ... ...

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... then the saleslady began to feel sorry for the family and sold the food to them. At the first camp, where everyone lived in very small and dirty shacks, the grandma becomes sick. They had food but no one else in the camp did. They didn't share the food with the hungry children because they had to save their food for ... ...

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... the war. I felt bad for him, and I still do. I wish that he could stay here with us because then I would take care of him, just like I take care of my grandma who lives here with my family and me. My grandpa surprised me a bit because he remembered everything my mom has told him about me. He seemed so updated, and he ... ...

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... grow from. With this knowledge we may prolong a person's life and allow a dying father to see his daughter's marriage ceremony, or a elderly grandmother hear her grandchild say, "I love your stories Grandma, I learn so much." We sell ourselves short if we think active euthanasia is an acceptable option for finding a "better death." From a doctors view point, Dr. Robert Orr writes that "compassion ... ...

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... are so scared of themselves that they must hate all strangers. Noah Joad, the eldest, leaves the family by simply wading down the river by which they have temporarily camped. Grandma Joad has now become ill, and she talks to her husband (Grandpa Joad) as if he was still alive. A sheriff comes by to warn Ma (Tom's Mom) that she and ... ...

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... my room or go outside and practice different things. When I was a junior in high school my mom re-married and moved to asdf. I stayed in California and lived with my grandma so that I could stay in school and not have to leave my boyfriend. My boyfriend and I decided that after I graduated we would also move to asdf and attend college. I am ... ...

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