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Character Analysis: Grandpa Joad
The Joad family’s farm is taken by the bank because of the drought and they decide to travel west to California. Shortly after their departure Grandpa Joad, a bitter man who didn’t want to leave his home, passes away. Many people have the same idea as the Joad family, and during their travels they meet Ivy and Sairy Wilson and invite them to ride in the truck since their car broke down. Sairy is very sick and doesn’t make it passed the California border. As they near California they hear that there are little jobs and little food, and soon after Granma Joad dies. The rest of the family move from camp to camp looking for work. At first the people aren’t very nice and start many fights, and Noah and Connie decide to leave the family and do their own thing. But later they start making many friends and some work. Everything seems great, but when the policeman murders Casey, Tom kills the …show more content…
I think this is accurate because I have read about how they had a hard time making a life in California. I also think it would be very unlikely for a whole piece of land to not be occupied because people wanted more money.
Another thing I think is accurate is when the native people weren’t that nice to the new Okies. I think this is accurate the native people already lived their and I wouldn’t want a bunch of people to move into my home. I also think this scene is accurate because there were lots of Okies and more were arriving.The native people need the jobs the Okies were wanting and since they were their first they wanted the jobs.
I don’t think any events of portrayals were inaccurate because the film was created in a time that they could still compare the events in the film and in real life. I think the film was pretty accurate because it was based off a book and the timing was very close to when these scene

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