Grapes of Wrath- Family Without Tom in the End

While reading Grapes of Wrath, I really thought the Joad family was a strong family. They always stuck together. They would leave a camp, just for Tom, because they wanted him to be safe. They always loved each other no matter what, even when it was hard to love. They went through a lot as a family. They went through situations that most could not. After being at their third camp though, they had to make Tom leave for his safety. I could tell that they did not really want to see Tom go, but they had to keep the rest of their family safe. Tom was causing everybody to feel unsafe. His younger sister Ruthie, who was twelve, would brag if she got in fights that her brother had killed two people. Ma Joad could not handle that, so that is when she decided to have him flee away. The rest of the Joad family seemed to be doing pretty good to me, though. When they moved to their third work camp, they ended up sharing an empty boxcar with the Wainwright family. The Joad and Wainwright family became really close, and really got to know each other. I knew they would be family friends forever. Tom's younger brother Al, who was sixteen, actually got married to Agnes Wainwright, who was also sixteen. Just when everything was getting good, the Joads and Wainwrights got a rain that flooded everything, like their boxcar. The Joads and the Wainwrights decided to move to a place with higher ground. It was kind of sad reading this, because they had been through so much. It seemed to me that their problems never stopped. They were going through a hard time in America, though. Every other family was having the same problems, too. It just seemed the Joad's was worse, because of Tom. The Joad family was a good family, and even though everything else was going wrong, they stuck together.