Chapter sixteen was really long and took me a while to get through. The chapter involved the Joads and the problems they have been encountering while on the road. At the moment, Granma is slowly going insane, and has been talking like she is carrying on a conversation with her deceased husband. I believe that she is not going to be around much longer, as the Joad family will be heading into the Rocky Mountains soon. It will be difficult for the Joads to find shad and stops along the road. Plus, Granma seems like she needed Grampa to survive and now that he is gone, she feels empty inside and as if she has lost her sole purpose in living. Also, Granma is getting old and traveling such a long distance cannot be good for her.
Along with a decline in Granma's health, one of the two cars is suffering. Now I do not know much about cars, but it seems that the car lost some type of rod that as important. However, I do not know for sure what exactly the rod did, other than cause problems for the Joad family. Because of the broken down car, the Joad family was forced to split up. Tom and Casy stay behind to try and fix the car while everyone else goes up ahead to get shade and rest for themselves and more specifically, Granma. Ma protests about the split, but she eventually goes with the majority and continues west to find a place to rest. Meanwhile, Tom and Casy start taking out the rod in the car. Casy starts talking to Tom; I found it interesting what Casy had to say about how someone is going to change the country with everyone going out west. I agree with Casy because there are so many people going west and abandoning their farms. Who knows what is going to happen once all those people arrive in California and find they all cannot work. People will start their own businesses and the economy will pick up again. What America does not know is that World War II will be starting soon, allowing everyone to get jobs again.
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