... - were not expecting people to cheat them or take advantage of how desperate they were. People along the road to California saw the "Okies- as poor, migrant beggars and thieves. When the Joads finally get on the road, they experience much traffic on the highway because lots of other farmers received the same ad Ma Joad received. In chapter 13, the family dog gets run over by a car, an event that foreshadows ... the death of Grandpa Joad. Grandpa Joad died of a stroke. The strain of the heat and his homesickness were too much for him to ... bear. The Joad family was just one of many ... ...

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... self reliance as essential for human survival. In the book, Ma Joad exemplifies this belief when she says "We"re the people we go on" (Steinbbeck ). It seems that Steinbeck is fascinated with the class of people the Joads represent, and their will to survive. In chapter fourteen, in one of the intercalary chapters the narrator asserts that humans are "unlike any other ... thing organic or inorganic in the universe."- They have a will to survive that ... the time on the road; and the time in California where the novel ends. This division of the novel corresponds to the three stages of t...

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