In the beginning of this novel, the Joad family is very separated from each other and disconnected. When Tom Joad comes home from prison he shows up to an empty house and when he was in prison he only heard from his family once or twice in 4 years. The family dynamic was very insecure and free.
with the change in location, the family is forced to change their dynamic. At one camp along their way to California, "the twenty families became one family, the children were the children of the all. The loss of home became one loss, and the golden time in the West was one dream" (Steinbeck, 193).
As the family moves west, the importance of family and sticking together in desperate times is curtail for the survival of a family. This quotes talks about multiple families coming together and acting as one, which is symbolic of the new transcendental beliefs that Steinbeck promotes through this text. Sticking as one allows communities to be created in which a society is successful. It is when people of different interests meet that conflict arises. This quote addresses the first journal that we had for this unit and it shows that Steinbeck though that sticking together, with your family is the right thing to do in extreme situations. When the multiple families come together they are able to help each other out when needed. Since they all have the same goal and interest of making it to California, they are able to bond together and become stronger.
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