Grapes of Wrath chapters 1-2

Characters: Tom Joad- He is a hitch hiker that just got out of prison after spending 4 years there because he killed a guy. He is going to go work on his uncles farm. He wears new but cheap clothes that dont fit him right because that is what he was given.

Truck- driver: He gives Joad a lift when he is not supposed to. He is nosy. He whats to take a school course and not be a truck diver anymore. He is responsable and doesnt drink on the job.

Waitress: She works at the diner where the truckdriver was eating. She has a lump behind her ear and doesnt really care or pay much attention to when the truck driver is trying to talk to her

Summary:
Chapter 1- this is an introduction to the time. We learn that nothing is growing and life is becoming hard. There is dust everywhere, people cover there doors, and windows in attempts to prevent it from coming in but it still seeps into the houses. It hangs in the Air all day and there is never any rain. The men are trying to figure out what they will do about it and the women stick by there mans side.

Chapter 2- It starts at a diner and a truck driver is talking to a waitress. He doesnt stay long before he needs to hit the raod again. When he goes to get in his truck he runs into Tom Joad who asks for a lift. On there ride the truck driver talks and tries to get Joad to talk but he is prety quite until Joad gets sick of the truck drivers nosiness and tells the truck driver that he just got out of jail because he killed someone and that he is going to his uncles farm to work.

Setting: Place: Oklahoma Time: 1920/30 great depression