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 * Summary
 * The Joad family arrives at Weedpatch (government camp) at night and meets the watchman. The watchman tells the family how the camp and the people. Tom gets excited that the cops in the government camp are elected by their own people. The watchman assigns the family to Number Four Sanitart Unit. Everyone sleeps until the next morning. Tom wakes up first and meets a woman making breakfast. She invited him over and he accepts it. Few moment later, Tom meets two men, Timothy Wallace (father) and Wilkie Wallace (son). The men tells Tom that there is a job that may be available for him. Tom gets excited and tells Ruthie, who just woke up, where he was going. Tom is introduced to Thomas. They talk about how the job is becoming limited and the wages are decreasing. Thomas gives in and gives Tom the job. Back at the camp, Ruthie find out that Winfield was awake and tells him that she was awake for the whole night, which is a lie. They go out exploring the bathroom and Ruthie tells more lies. When they went back to the camp, Ma asks Ruthie where Tom was and she tells Ma that he went out working. Ma goes to the men's sanitary and the man tells her that the Ladies' Committee will be coming to her camp, so Ma waked everyone up to get cleaned before the commintte came to their campsite. Everyone, except Ma, go to the bathroom to get cleaned. Jim Rawley, the camp manager, greets Ma and tells her about the people in the government camp. The three men, Pa, Uncle John (who is sick), and Al, comes back and they have their breakfast. Then, they leave to go find a job. Rose of Sharon comes back and Ma leaves to take a shower that Rose of Sharon described to her. Rose of Sharon meets a woman names Lisbeth Sandry, who scares her. The woman leaves, Rose of Sharon cries, and the manager comes to cheer her up. After she is cheered up, he leaves and Ma comes to back. Rose of Sharon tells Ma about the lady who sacred her. The Ladies' Committee comes (Annie Littlefield, Ella Summers, and Jessie Bullitt) and show them around the camp. Ruthie and Winfield finds children playing croquet and Ruthie demands that she wants to play now (not the next game). The children, including Winfield, watches her play by herself and she runs back to her tent to cry. The three men drives to find jobs, but the only thing they found was a man who tells them that they won't find a job nearby. The men takes the man back to the government camp. Back at the camp, Lisbeth Sandry comes back, but Ma was there to protect Rose of Sharon. Lisbeth levaes because Ma demanded her to and the manager comes to calm Ma down. Atrer he leaves, the men come back to tell Ma about the bad news.

Passages " 'Well, I belong to it. We had a meeting last night. Now, fo you know who runs the Farmers' Association? I'll tell you. The Bank of the West. That bank owns most of this valley, and it's got paper on everything it don't own. So last night the member from the bank told me, he said, "You're paying thirty-cents an hour. You'd better cut it down to twenty-five." I said, "I've got good men. They're worth thirty." And he says, "It isn't that," he says. "The wage is twenty-five now. If you pay thirty, it'll only cause unrest. And by the way," he says, "you going to need the usual amount for a crop loan next year?" ' Thomas stopped. His breath was panting through his lips. 'You see? The reate is twenty-five cents--and like it.' " (Pg. 402)

Discussion Questions What does the Ladies' Committee show the roles of the women in the government camp?

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