When Tommy found his mother, his mother asked him: Did they harm you? Did they make you crazy and mean? Sometimes they do. They harm you, drive you crazy, become harsh and extreme, they abuse you again, you become more and more ruthless, and you are no longer a child or a person, and become a zombie, mean lunatic... Did they harm you like this? ? son?
Because I don't need a ruthless son.
The capitalist said: No trees exist independently of the forest. You are working for social machines just like us. Bank managers are also poor people in chains. He never understands you with dignity, but he wants you to think about greater force majeure and sacrifice your basic rights and dignity as a person, because only the voice of the exploited is small enough, and the vision of a dream of prosperity and stability can Can be buried in people's hearts.
I was like a kid in a car when I first read this book. We are going to California! We are going to California! Everything is new, there is nothing to be afraid of. Even if someone had already told the truth; 3000 people were vying for 800 jobs, the actual fate of the affluent West Coast is unknown. The Chauders believe that the facts of others are not beneficial to themselves, because labor and wisdom are always more reliable than everything else.
I was convinced at that time. It’s not that good fortune is swayed more than others, on the contrary, only preparations for suffering and death—just as the two gas station clerk who chewed gum after crossing the desert said: You and I have reason, they don’t have reason or feeling. , They are not humans, no one lives like that, humans can't bear the kind of pain-if there is nothing that can be discarded, there is nothing to be afraid of.
Those words are like encouragement: put your heart down, where can you not go.
I didn’t have a home. When they left Uncle John’s dilapidated hut in Oklahoma, Mom burned the letter and some of the remaining paper. On the truck, she never looked back. She said: I never I have been torn down the house, have never been trapped on the road with my family, and have never had to lose all his life. That's because she has family members who have been together. At that time, I thought, that would not be counted as loneliness and loss. Tommy is under her wings, and the entire Joad's house is guided and protected by her.
It also gave me courage. When Tommy wanted to escape for the first time, his mother said, Al only thought of himself, and Uncle John was utterly utterly utterly awkward every day. Your father lost his status and Rosa Sharon was about to give birth to a child, but that child was born without a family. And Wenfield, what will he become like this? Growing up wild with Lucy, like an animal, without faith. Don't go, Tom, stay and help.
Escape, I think, escape from such a yoke. You can stay only in places that don't exist or in death, they belong to Murray and William's grandfather. My neighbor, who is guarding the land, has become a lonely ghost. The capitalists sometimes come to check him, but they don't care because he is neither useful nor harmful. Tommy was angry and ignorant. Four years in prison turned him into a person out of touch with the world, anyone can reform him-and at that time I didn't even understand the inevitability of the death of Casey, who was no longer a priest.
Casey is the one who sows seeds in other people's hearts. He always smiles like that, as if he doesn't care about everything, his previous beliefs have disappeared, and he also looks at a loss about the world, but he knows everything he is doing and all the consequences.
They said that Casey was killed in an accident. But no, he died for the revolution. Tommy didn't understand what he said when he died, but Casey said, you will understand. He, or you, or me, or a Jode, a little ant, did not break into Taoyuan Township at the right time, but could eventually break through even if he was in it, and would not be like anything else even when desperate. People went back home like that frustrated.
Put your mind to the bottom, where can't you go.
What a sad sentence it is. It's not an escape. When Tommy wanted to escape, Mom left him behind, but in the utopian illusion of capitalism, when he talked about leaving, Mom said, you know, I can hide you. Tommy said, I know, but I can't let you do that.
He finally said:
"Do you know what I think? I think about Casey. Thinking about what he said and what he did. How he died. I remember all of them. I also think about us. We live like pigs, those lazy ones. So rich, one person owns tens of thousands of mu of land and thousands of farmers are going to starve to death. I’m not sure if all of us gather together and yell—(Oh, Tommy, they’ll deal with Kathy You)-they will always take care of me, and sooner or later they will put me a crime, until then. As long as I am still a criminal, maybe I can do something, maybe I can find something, just find something, go around Turn around, maybe... maybe find something wrong and see what can be changed.
"I haven't figured it out yet, Mom, I can't, I don't know enough."
(How do I know you, Tommy? If they kill you, I can't know, they killed you, how do I know?)
"Perhaps as Casey said, people don't have their own souls, only a small piece of a huge soul, that huge soul that belongs to everyone. Then—"
(Then what, Tom?)
"Then it doesn't matter. I will always be in the dark, I am everywhere, as long as you can see. Wherever hungry people are fighting, I will be there. Wherever there are police beating people, I will be there. I am in the crowd of angry yelling, I am in the laughter of children knowing that the food is ready. When people eat the food they grow and live in their own built houses, I am there too."
(I didn’t understand, Tom.)
"I don't quite understand, Mom. These are just some of my thoughts."
I still don't quite understand. But one day. Someday.
We will go far away.
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