All police and state law enforcement authorities are allied with the growers. The big corporate farmers are in collusion and smaller farmers suffer from collapsing prices. Reaching California, they find the state oversupplied with labor wages are low, and workers are exploited to the point of starvation. Led by Ma, the remaining members continue on, as nothing is left for them in Oklahoma. The family dwindles on the way: Grampa dies 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) leave the family. The group worries that California may not be as rewarding as suggested. In makeshift camps, they hear many stories from others, some returning from California. Traveling west on Route 66, the Joads find the road crowded with other migrants. Although leaving Oklahoma violates his parole, Tom takes the risk, and invites Casy to join the family. The Joads put everything they have into making the journey. The family sees no option but to seek work in California, which has been described in handbills as fruitful and offering high pay. Tom's family is loading their remaining possessions into a Hudson sedan converted into a truck with the crops destroyed by the Dust Bowl, the family has defaulted on their bank loans and their farm has been repossessed. The next morning, Tom and Casy go to Uncle John's. They have moved away, but Muley refuses to leave the area. Graves says the banks have evicted all the farmers. Disconcerted and confused, Tom and Casy meet an old neighbor, Muley Graves, who says the family is at Uncle John Joad's home nearby. Arriving at Tom's childhood farm home, they find it deserted. While hitchhiking to his home near Sallisaw, Oklahoma, Tom meets former preacher Jim Casy, whom he remembers from his childhood, and the two travel together. The narrative begins just after Tom Joad is paroled from McAlester prison, where he had been incarcerated after being convicted of homicide in self-defense. 7 Similarities to Whose Names Are Unknown.
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