Grapes of Wrath- Meeting the Wilson's on the Way

The Joads were on their journey to California, and they stopped on the way to camp out for the night. They ended up helping a Kansas couple with their car, wheen they saw that they were pretty close to them. Their names were Ivy and Sarah (Sairy). Sairy was actually very ill, like Granpa, but she still was very nice and welcoming to the Joads. The Joads were really worried about Granpa. The Wilson's saw that he was not feeling good at all, and they offered him a tent. I thought that that was pretty awesome. They were going through a ruff time, but they still were really nice and could offer someone their tent. They always thought about others first, it seemed like to me. Granpa had a stroke though, and ended up dieing that night. This was a very sad moment for the Joads. They loved him so much, and knew it would be hard without him. They did not know what to do with his body, though, which was a big deal right then. They knew that the they were required, by law, to report his death, but they knew it was an extra forty dollars they would have to spend. The Joad family was going through a time were money was tight, and they did not have the extra money to spend. They ended up just burying him where they were. The Wilson's were also nice enough to give them a quilt of their's to wrap him up in. The Wilson's also gave the Joad's a blank page from their bible to write a note to say why they did this, if Granpa's body was ever found. The Joad's helped the Wilson's out with their car, because the Wilson's could not afford it. Tom and Al wanted to do it thouugh, because they had done so much for them. Meeting the Wilsons, was a good time for the Joads. They also ended up driving along to California together, Ma offered, even though the Wilson's were not for sure at first they did.