"Grapes of Wrath" Posting 2

For my second blog posting, I read chapters 4-6. In these chapters, a man named Tom Joad, one of the main characters, watches the truck drive off from the turtle. He picks it up and takes it to his little brother. On his way he meets Jim Casy. Jim Casy is a former minister who knew Tom as a child. Tom confesses about how he killed in a man in a brawl and is not ashamed of going to prison for it. Jim wants to visit Tom's family and when they get to Tom's house, it's deserted.
Also a lot of tenants lost their jobs and have to move on. They decided to all move west. One of the tenants sees a man driving a tractor. The tractor driver warns the man that he needs to leave his house by dinner time because he is going to have to tear it down.
When Tom and Jim get to the house, they see it has been destroyed. A man named Muley tells them that the Joad family moved to his Uncle John's house to pick cotton. The three of them see a car coming and Muley tells them to hide. It was the deputies. After that Muley takes them to a cave to sleep, but Tom refuses.

I found these chapters to be kind of sad because everybody is realising that their lives are falling apart. The tenants are loaing their jobs and Tom just los his home and is forced to hide from the cops for tresspassing at his own house. I enjoy learning about the Depression because I've never learned it before. I was going to in eigth grade, but I moved here and learned something else. This story helps better my knowledge of what the struggle was like for people living in these times. The way owners would make tenants lose their jobs, just so they, the owners, could make more money. I'm enjoying this book so far. I hope it continues to be good.