Chapters 14-16: "This is the beginning - from 'I' to 'we.'"

In chapter fourteen of The Grapes of Wrath, there are lots of people who are journeying to the state or California, and the people in California are worried that they poor people on the roads and the streets will come together and overtake the state of California. In chapter fifteen there is a time when there are two boys who come to a grocery store in a destitute state with their father. They ask for a loaf of bread for a dime, and are turned away by the gal at the counter, but soon she softens and gives them the bread and a few pieces of candy for only twelve cents, and the truckers who were there at the time, left extra large tips for the gal at the counter for showing such kindness to the boys and their father. In the book it quotes that Mae says “The loaves are worth 15-cents”. Throughout these chapters it shows that people do care about one another no matter the circumstances. In chapter sixteen there is a time that the Joads are with the Wilson’s and their car breaks down, so they go for parts and find a place where the man is worried about his business to much and freaks out about his luck and all of the hardships in California that people have to face. But when the Joads get back out on the road the find that many people are working together and are saying “twenty families became one family”, because so many families are combining together to help each other.