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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book about Tom, Joad, Casy entitled The Grapes of Wrath?
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conversations.value: The Grapes of Wrath: The narrative begins just after Tom Joad is paroled from McAlester prison, where he had been imprisoned after being convicted of homicide.\nOn his return to his home near Sallisaw, Oklahoma, Tom meets former preacher Jim Casy, whom he remembers from his childhood, and the two travel together.\nWhen they arrive at Tom's childhood farm home, they find it deserted.\nDisconcerted and confused, Tom and Casy meet their old neighbor, Muley Graves, who tells them the family has gone to stay at Uncle John Joad's home nearby.\nGraves tells them that the banks have evicted all the farmers, but he refuses to leave the area.\nThe next morning, Tom and Casy go to Uncle John's.\nTom finds his family loading their remaining possessions into a Hudson Motor Car Company saloon converted to a truck; with their crops destroyed by the Dust Bowl, the family has defaulted on their bank loans, and their farm has been repossessed.\nConsequently, the Joads have no option but to seek work in California, described in handbills as fruitful and offering high pay.\nThe Joads put everything they have into making the journey.\nAlthough leaving Oklahoma would violate his parole, Tom decides it is worth the risk, and invites Casy to join him and his family.\nTraveling west on Route 66, the Joad family find the road crowded with other migrants.\nIn makeshift camps, they hear many stories from others, some returning from California, and the group worries about lessening prospects.\nThe family unit dwindles, too: Granpa dies along the road, and they bury him in a field; Granma dies close to the California state line; and both Noah (the eldest Joad son) and Connie Rivers (the husband of the pregnant Joad daughter, Rose of Sharon) split from the family.\nLed by Ma, the remaining members realize they can only continue, as nothing is left for them in Oklahoma.\nReaching California, they find the state oversupplied with labor, so wages are low, and workers are exploited to the point of starvation.\nThe big corporate farmers are in collusion, and smaller farmers suffer from collapsing prices.\nWeedpatch Camp, one of the clean, utility-supplied camps operated by the Resettlement Administration, a New Deal agency, offers better conditions, but does not have enough resources to care for all the needy families.\nNonetheless, as a Federal facility, the camp protects the migrants from harassment by California deputies.\nIn response to the exploitation, Casy becomes a labor organizer and tries to recruit for a labor union.\nThe remaining Joads work as strikebreakers in a peach orchard, where Casy is involved in a strike that eventually turns violent.\nWhen Tom Joad witnesses Casy's fatal beating, he kills the attacker and flees as a fugitive.\nThe Joads later leave the orchard for a cotton farm, where Tom is at risk of being arrested for the homicide.\nTom bids his mother farewell and promises to work for the oppressed.\nRose of Sharon's baby is stillborn.\nMa Joad remains steadfast and forces the family through the bereavement.\nWith rain, the Joads' dwelling is flooded, and they move to higher ground.\nIn the final chapter of the book, the family takes shelter from the flood in an old barn.\nInside, they find a young boy and his father, who is dying of starvation.\nRose of Sharon takes pity on the man and offers him her breast, to save him from starvation.
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conversations.value: What is a plot for a book about Joad, Tom, Casy entitled The Grapes of Wrath?
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conversations.value: The Grapes of Wrath (film): The film opens with Tom Joad (Henry Fonda), released from prison and hitchhiking his way back to his parents\' family farm in Oklahoma.\nTom finds an itinerant ex-preacher named Jim Casy (John Carradine) sitting under a tree by the side of the road.\nCasy was the preacher who baptized Tom, but now Casy has "lost the spirit" and his faith (presaging his imminent conversion to communism).\nCasy goes with Tom to the Joad property only to find it deserted.\nThere, they meet Muley Graves (John Qualen) who is hiding out.\nIn a flashback, he describes how farmers all over the area were forced from their farms by the deed holders of the land.\nA local boy (Irving Bacon), hired for the purpose, is shown knocking down Muley\'s house with a Caterpillar tractor.\nThe large Joad family of twelve leaves at daybreak, along with Casy, who decides to accompany them.\nThey pack everything into a dilapidated 1926 Hudson "Super Six" sedan adapted to serve as a truck in order to make the long journey to the promised land of California.\nThe trip along Highway 66 is arduous, and it soon takes a toll on the Joad family.\nThe elderly Grandpa (Charley Grapewin) dies along the way.\nTom writes the circumstances surrounding the death on a page from the family Bible and places it on the body before they bury it so that if his remains were found, his death would not be investigated as a possible homicide.\nThey park in a camp and meet a man, a migrant returning from California, who laughs at Pa\'s optimism about conditions in California.\nHe speaks bitterly about his experiences in the West.\nThe family arrives at the first transient migrant campground for workers and finds the camp is crowded with other starving, jobless and desperate travelers.\nTheir truck slowly makes its way through the dirt road between the shanty houses and around the camp\'s hungry-faced inhabitants.\nTom says, "Sure don\'t look none too prosperous".\nAfter some trouble with a so-called "agitator", the Joads leave the camp in a hurry.\nThe Joads make their way to another migrant camp, the Keene Ranch.\nAfter doing some work in the fields, they discover the high food prices in the company store for meat and other products.\nThe store is the only one in the area, by a long shot.\nLater they find a group of migrant workers are striking, and Tom wants to find out all about it.\nHe goes to a secret meeting in the dark woods.\nWhen the meeting is discovered, Casy is killed by one of the camp guards.\nAs Tom tries to defend Casy from the attack, he inadvertently kills the guard.\nTom suffers a serious wound on his cheek, and the camp guards realize it will not be difficult to identify him.\nThat evening the family hides Tom under the mattresses of the truck just as guards arrive to question them; they are searching for the man who killed the guard.\nTom avoids being spotted and the family leaves the Keene Ranch without further incident.\nAfter driving for a while, they have to stop at the top of a hill when the engine overheats due to a broken fan belt; they have little gas, but decide to try coasting down the hill to some lights.\nThe lights are from a third type of camp: Farmworkers\' Wheat Patch Camp (Weedpatch in the book), a clean camp run by the Department of Agriculture, complete with indoor toilets and showers, which the Joad children had never seen before.\nTom is moved to work for change by what he has witnessed in the various camps.\nHe tells his family that he plans to carry on Casy\'s mission in the world by fighting for social reform.\nHe leaves to seek a new world and to join the movement committed to social justice.\nTom Joad says: I\'ll be all around in the dark.\nI\'ll be everywhere.\nWherever you can look, wherever there\'s a fight, so hungry people can eat, I\'ll be there.\nWherever there\'s a cop beatin\' up a guy, I\'ll be there.\nI\'ll be in the way guys yell when they\'re mad.\nI\'ll be in the way kids laugh when they\'re hungry and they know supper\'s ready, and when the people are eatin\' the stuff they raise and livin\' in the houses they build, I\'ll be there, too.\nAs the family moves on again, they discuss the fear and difficulties they have had.\nMa Joad concludes the film, saying: I ain\'t never gonna be scared no more.\nI was, though.\nFor a while it looked as though we was beat.\nGood and beat.\nLooked like we didn\'t have nobody in the whole wide world but enemies.\nLike nobody was friendly no more.\nMade me feel kinda bad and scared too, like we was lost and nobody cared.\nRich fellas come up and they die, and their kids ain\'t no good and they die out, but we keep a-coming.\nWe\'re the people that live.\nThey can\'t wipe us out, they can\'t lick us.\nWe\'ll go on forever, Pa, cos we\'re the people.