The Joads prepare to leave the farm.

The Joads prepare to leave the farm. Illustration from The Grapes of Wrath, illustrated edition vol.1 (pt.2 end paper) as the family gets ready to leave the farm. Thomas Hart Benton, a native of eastern Oklahoma, was assigned to draw archetypal Oklahomans for 20th Century Fox as the studio believed that would make the casting more accurate. see also 3-343. "Al slipped in the low gear and let in the clutch. The truck shuddered and strained across the yard. And the second gear took hold. They crawled up the little hill and the red dust arose about them."