Chapters 1-10
Prompt: F

In this novel there is a repetition in theme as theme occurs often.  As there deciding to make there move to the west, family is very important to them as they have to decide on many things as for their trip.


"And then all of a sudden, the family began to function. Pa got up and a lighted another lantern. Noah from a box in the kitchen, brought out the bow-bladed butchering knife and whetted it on a worn little carborundum stone. And he laid the scraper on the chopping block, and the knife beside it. Pa brought two sturdy sticks, each three feet long, and pointed the ends with the ax, and he tied strong ropes, double half-hitched, to the middle of the sticks." (Chapter 10.Page 114)

This paragraph illustrates how they all have to work together.At times the Joad family does not even need to communicate as they are all working together very well. When they are working well together, they are at their bests, but when they begin to become distressed and scared, there communication does not work well. They have yet come to realize that they will only make it though this with each other, but once they realize this, going west will become easy for them, .