The Grapes of Wrath, Conflicts

11. There are several conflicts in this book, and quite a few major ones. The first one in the book I would write about is when Grandpa refuses to leave Uncle John’s house. It must have been difficult for him to leave the place had always lived. He most likely was born there, and grew up there. He was leaving the place he had worked all of his life. The only place he knew to work and the only thing he knew how to do was to farm. It was difficult for his family to persuade to get in the truck and leave. Eventually they had to drug him to make him fall asleep so they could put him on the truck. A big conflict for Tom and his mother and father was that they knew Tom would have to break parole if he left the state and went with them to California. Ma did not want Tom get caught and sent back to McAlester. I think that it eased Ma’s mind when Tom told her the only way that he would get caught is if he committed another crime. Another conflict would be what to do when Grandpa had died. They did not want anyone to think that he had been murdered and buried along side the road, but they did not have enough money to go to the coroner’s office and by a death certificate. So they decided to burry him along side the road and place a bottle in the grave with him that explained what had happened. I think that this was a good resolution to the conflict they had. Something that troubled them was when the Wilson’s car broke down. The men wanted Tom and Al to stay and fix the car, but Ma went wild and said that she did not want the family to be split apart. Once they finally calmed Ma down and they convinced her everything was going to be alright Ma knew she had been wrong.