The Grapes of Wrath

Chapter fifteen starts off talking about the people traveling from different places on Highway 66, coming from NY, RI, Mass, Tenn, and so on to get to CA. It talks about how people in different cars and trucks are driving and some who are rich and others who are poor and how they are predictable and how the story knows what they are going to be doing once they get there. It also talks a lot about Mae and Al and what they are doing.
Chapter sixteen is talking about how granma is having a hard time with the heat from the car ride and how she wasn't doing so well or feeling so well. It was kind of sad to hear that because since she is older it isn't good for her or her body. Rose of Sharon and Connie were talking about wanting to leave the family to live in town and be closer to a doctor and start a store and everything. When she told her mom about this Ma wasn't very happy about it. She didn't think that in such hard times families should split up. Then she figured out that it was more like a dream than what would really happen. I think that it is good for her to have dreams and it would possibly be good for them to live on their own but not too far from the family.
Then the car breaks down and it's a good thing Tom was there because he seems to be the only one who knows how to fix it. I think that Tom has went through a lot more than the others. He knows more about vehicles and how to fix them and he seems to know more about things because he has experienced them and been out in the world. So Tom decides to stay behind to fix the truck while the others keep on going and once the truck's fixed he would meet up with them.
Chapter seventeen talks about migrants going to a shelter and communicating with each other about how where they came from and how bad it is where they're from. I think that chapter seventeen was important for the story becauseit talks about how other people are living throught this and how they're getting through this in the world. It then talks about them migrating west and what they have to go through once they are there and how they are adapting to their new life.