Chapter 19
This chapter is about families and their hard ships. It tells if how they are living in Hoovervilles and people are doing secret gardening. People around them have huge farms with plenty of food but they can't have any if it. Children are dying from mal nutrition and people are miserable
Chapter 20
In this chapter the family settles into the Hooverville. As ma is making dinner some children gather around and stare. No one has any money to buy food and people are starving. While this is going on al meets a man named flyod. He helps fix his car. Flyod discloses that there is work in the north and nit to tell anybody. Some cops show up and flyod gets in trouble because they try to offer work but don't kno where or how much the workers will get paid. Tom trips the officer and casy kicks his neck to knock him out. Casy takes the blame and is taken to jail. After this tom tells the family of the work up north. The. Camp will be burned that night so they must leave. Connie took off and roseaharn is very upset. Uncle John went off to get drunk and wants to die. Tom knocks him out and makes him go with them. On their way to the highway the mob that is going to burn the camp makes the family turn around saying that they didn't want any okies to go their and they found a different route.
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