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Chapter 26: After staying in the government camp for almost a month the Joad family realize that their supplies are running low. Ma insistes that they move on since they do not have enough supplies to live on while at the camp. Pa does not want to move because of the toilets and how it is the first place where they have decent living conditions. Ma takes this into account but brings into the light the problem that have not been able to get any work. She suggest that they move on to Marysville where it says that fruit pickers are needed. They make the decision to move on first thing in the morning. Rose of Sharon is worried that he baby will be born with deformadies and complains that she needs milk to deliver a healthy child. They leave in the morning but encounter a problem in the form of a flat tire. A man offers them a job at the Hooper ranch and so they head that way where they find work. When they arrive the find the town over runned with protestors in the streets. The police ushers them into the camp passed the angry crowed. The family works picking peaches at five cents a box. With the money they earn Ma buys groceries at the near by store. After supper Tom sneaks out of the ranch to learn more about the angry crowed. Once outside he finds Casy and they speak about Casy's time in prison. Tom finds out that Casy is trying to organize the migrants. Casy tells him that once the protests is brocken up that the Joad family will only be paid two cents a box. Some men attack and one of them bashes Casy's head, killing him instantly. Tom reacts by grapping th weapon and hitting the man back. He runs back to the ranch and hides out at their lodging. When Tom wakes up the next morning, his face is swollen and his nose broken. He tells the family that he is in trouble and offers to leave rather so he does not endanger the whole family. Ma insists that he stay, because he needs to be protected and needs someone to hide him. Only the family can be trusted with his safety. That day the Joads pick peaches for two and a half cents a box in order to collect enough money for gas. They hide Tom inside a cave made of mattresses and drive out of the ranch. As they travel, Tom sees an advertisement for cotton pickers, and the family stops. Tom proposes to hide in a nearby creek and join them again after his face heals.

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