JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. For the best experience on our site, be sure to turn on Javascript in your browser. Al Joad is Tom Joad's sixteen-year-old brother who likes to "billygoat" and "tomcat" his way around the country a. He drove a truck for a company the year before, and so he becomes the family mechanic, able to drive cars and fix them, too.
It is grainy and hard as though no water has ever moistened it. Day after day, storm clouds can be seen lingering overhead. You could swear it would rain any minute, but it never does.
The humidity only increases and the fine dust particles become part of the air; which only makes things worse. Not only is it unbearably hot, but it is terribly difficult to breathe. Life cannot exist in such unbearable conditions. For this reason, life moves on and leaves behind the giant dustbowl. He adored him and tried to lead him everywhere anytime. However, living in his big brother's shadow can be a lot of pressure.
That is why by the end of the novel he has become his own man doing things the way only he wants them to be done. Also, some time ago he promises to marry one girl in Weedpatch, but things rarely go the way we want them to.
One time, his family was working on the cotton plantation, and exactly there happened a very cute thing. He falls in love with a girl Agnes Wainwright and decides to stay with her rather than living with his family. Although his character serves largely to produce comical effect, he exhibits a very real and poignant connection to the land. The family is forced to drug him in order to get him to leave the homestead; removed from his natural element, however, Grampa soon dies. Al is vain and cocky but an extremely competent mechanic, and his expertise proves vital in bringing the Joads, as well as the Wilsons, to California.
He idolizes Tom, but by the end of the novel he has become his own man. When he falls in love with a girl named Agnes Wainwright at a cotton plantation where they are working, he decides to stay with her rather than leaving with his family.
The Wilsons lend the Joads their tent so that Grampa can have a comfortable place to die. Noah has been slightly deformed since his birth: Pa Joad had to perform the delivery and, panicking, tried to pull him out forcibly. Slow and quiet, Noah leaves his family behind at a stream near the California border, telling Tom that he feels his parents do not love him as much as they love the other children.
He has never forgiven himself for her death, and he often dwells heavily on the negligence he considers a sin. The second and younger Joad daughter. Ruthie has a fiery relationship to her brother Winfield: the two are intensely dependent upon one another and fiercely competitive. At the age of ten, Winfield is the youngest of the Joad children.
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