The grapes of wrafth chapter 17-20

At this point the boo0k seems to be gettin much more dramatic. It takes time to explain the hardships of the calfornia life. Chapter 19 seems to catch my attention alot because it describes americans stealing land from the mexicans then americans are stealing it from them selves which makes no sense towards the author. I think the author realizes this and uses the chapter to show how harsh life really is in california. THe death of grand ma was a really dramatic ending, it was so predicatable i thought it was not going to happen. I thogught that Stinebeck would show women strenght and dependience on family in order to live. But she does not i think this shows taht no matter how strong someone look anything that hurts mentally can break them. The disrespect taht was given because of the lack of money seems much more harsh than california. Also in the next chapter the family seems to be breaking up. The unity be the joad family and the Wilson family has broken up. Now im left to think will they even make it to california? They seem to have been snapped back to reality. In chapter 20 the joad family arrived tin California. They have a conversation with a man who decided to go back because he cannot deal with life in california. HE talks about the black list and how farmers (okies) cannot revolt because if they did they would be arrested and put on the blacklist so they would never be able to find jobs. The thing that suprises me the most in this section of the book is the idea that the Joad family is not discorage. Tey have went trought so much losing their family members and still they want to go to california. They belive in god and look out for each other. Cassy, for example tells Tom that he will take the heat for for him because he just had paroll and leaving the state was illegeal . But there times when the family is not able to stay together, but again tey still do not lose hope. I wonder how many of them will be lost? Will they ever be happy wit the losses they have?