The Grapes of Wrath #12

The grandparents in the novel The Grapes of Wrath were unique people. Granpa was a farmer. He farmed his land. He loved his land. He did not want to leave when the family was leaving. He wanted to stay because he has been with it for as long as he can remeber. He was around when all there was to farming was using your hands and animals. He was not good at the transition off to using tractors. He believed that he could still do the work that he always did, even without a tractor. He is a strong man for doing this, becuase even though he is old, he still wants to lift the heavy things and to do the hard work. He is also a stuborn man because when the family is getting ready to leave, he does not want to go. He must go because the bankers are taking the Joad family land and granpa has no where to go. I would not want to go if I was him either. I bet he thought it was a stupid idea to go to California because he knew that there was nothing out there to offer them. He wanted to stay with his friend, but he had to go with his family. That was a smart thing to do. I bet his family was happy to have him with them, even if he did complain alot. On the trip, he died. The family was stopped at a campsite and he went quite and a nice family toke him into their tent and let him die in their tent. This was very nice of them because it would be scary to have a guy die in the place you sleep. He was also a symbol of the past leaving them because his wife, granma, died also on the way to California. This means that the Joad family is leaving behind thier past to move on to the next stage of their lives.