Tom Joad's Philosophy
Throughout the book, Tom Joad’s philosophy evolves. He made a friend and wanted to follow his path and think the way he does. Tom Joad finds himself following the path of Jim Casy and he takes different types of actions to prove that he is closure to Casy’s beliefs.
In the beginning of the book, Tom Joad is not really interested of what is happening around him, he is mostly in his own world. Tom meets Casy and then they both reunite with Tom's family. When the car broke down, Tom and Casy had to get it fixed. When they were waiting Casy noticed the cars going westward, and Casy started to worry because he wondered what if their are no more jobs left. “How’d I know? I’m jus’ puttin’ one foot in front a the other. I done it at Mac for …show more content…
While spending time with casy, Tom begins to see himself more like Casy. He noticed this realization towards the end of the book. For example, when Tom meets Casy once more, Casy tells Tom that he has been starting a strike and he is trying to bring justice to those who have been starving. When Casy dies and Tom has to go into hiding, Tom ends up thinking a lot about Casy and his thoughts. In this quote, “Lookie, Ma. I been all day an’ all night hidin’ alone. Guess who i been thinkin’ about? Casy! He talked a lot. Used ta bother me. But now I been thinkin’ what he said, an’ I can remember - all of it. Says one time he went out in the wilderness to find his own soul, an’ he foun’ he didn’ have no soul that was his’n. Says he foun’ he jus’ got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain’t no good, ‘cause his little piece of a soul wasn’t no good ‘less it was with the rest, an’ was whole. Funny how I remember. Didn’ think I was even listenin’. But i know a fella ain’t no good alone. (570, Steinbeck)”. In this quote, Tom is talking to his mother about how he is going to finish what Casy started. This also proves that Tom’s philosophy has changed. Before he believed that he should put one froot in front of the other, but now he believes that each of our souls is part of a big
In the beginning of the book, Tom Joad is not really interested of what is happening around him, he is mostly in his own world. Tom meets Casy and then they both reunite with Tom's family. When the car broke down, Tom and Casy had to get it fixed. When they were waiting Casy noticed the cars going westward, and Casy started to worry because he wondered what if their are no more jobs left. “How’d I know? I’m jus’ puttin’ one foot in front a the other. I done it at Mac for …show more content…
While spending time with casy, Tom begins to see himself more like Casy. He noticed this realization towards the end of the book. For example, when Tom meets Casy once more, Casy tells Tom that he has been starting a strike and he is trying to bring justice to those who have been starving. When Casy dies and Tom has to go into hiding, Tom ends up thinking a lot about Casy and his thoughts. In this quote, “Lookie, Ma. I been all day an’ all night hidin’ alone. Guess who i been thinkin’ about? Casy! He talked a lot. Used ta bother me. But now I been thinkin’ what he said, an’ I can remember - all of it. Says one time he went out in the wilderness to find his own soul, an’ he foun’ he didn’ have no soul that was his’n. Says he foun’ he jus’ got a little piece of a great big soul. Says a wilderness ain’t no good, ‘cause his little piece of a soul wasn’t no good ‘less it was with the rest, an’ was whole. Funny how I remember. Didn’ think I was even listenin’. But i know a fella ain’t no good alone. (570, Steinbeck)”. In this quote, Tom is talking to his mother about how he is going to finish what Casy started. This also proves that Tom’s philosophy has changed. Before he believed that he should put one froot in front of the other, but now he believes that each of our souls is part of a big