Grapes of Wrath- Tom Hiding in California

We learned in one of the first parts of the book the Tom Joad had killed someone. He was paroled from the state penitentiary though, and hitchhiked home. He made it home, and his family was moving to California, so he went along with them. Tom was still a trouble maker, and he showed us that when they stopped at the first camp in California, looking for work. Tom witnessed a cop trying to accuse a man of something he did not do, so Tom tripped the cop, and Casy kicked him. After awhile, the cop regained concious and realized what had gone on. Casy knew that Tom could get in big trouble if he turned himself in, so Casy turned himself in. When I read this in the book, I thought that was really nice of Casy, because Tom would have had to go back to prison, if he would have got caught. I was happy the Joad famlily, including Tom, got away to look for a different camp, because the cops would have later figured out what Tom had done too. Tom behaved for a little bit, but later got in trouble again. Tom was picking peaches, and he wondered out and met up with Jim Casy. He saw some authorities kill Jim Casy for running the stike. Tom got upset and beating the man that killed Casy. He ended up getting his nose broken. Tom escaped, and his whole family had to too. They escaped to another camp where Tom had to hide in a cave. Tom was a good guy, at heart I thought, he just liked to help people when he really was hurting someone else. He ended up having to leave the third camp to flee by himself because, he was not safe anywhere. He could get his family in trouble if he were to stay. I thought it was nice of him to be able to leave his family, because he wanted to keep them safe.