Chapters 25-30

The Joads face power problems and experience a bit of a force upheaval as there is a transfer of force of sorts. Ma Joad chooses to take action after they have used a month in the administration camp and Pa Joad is not making any choices to leave. She says to Pa Joad that he " ain't a-doin' [his] work. . . . In the event that [he] was, the reason, [he] could utilize [his] stick, a' ladies folks'd sneeze their nose and downer mouse aroun'"(453), to basically tell make him angry and embarrassed so he tries his hardest to show her up and get them out of the chaos they are in. This also indicates that by and by that Ma Joad is the dominant person who is keeping this family together and afloat.  Later on in the novel when Ruthie accidentally, in the heat existing apart from everything else, spills Tom's mystery about slaughtering two individuals and Ma is talking to him Tom says that he was considering what Jim Casy said about souls. Casy said that " he foun' he jus'  got a little piece of a great big soul" (535). This shows that Jim Casy had faith in the Human family and now Tom has confidence in it as well. Everybody being a little yet integral part of a greater human family is one of the many thing this novel taught individuals about themselves.