Chapters 7-10

In chapter 7, we are at a car dealership where extremely high prices are demanded by the dealer. They are taking advantage of the customers and are forcing them to pay the high prices or to go without a car which they couldn't do, because if they didn't, they would have no way to get to California. The dealership was so desperate, they changed the new batteries for old and cracked ones.
In Chapter 8, we meet the rest of the Joad family. When Tom approaches the house, he notices his father working in the back of some old truck that they will be packing all of their things for the trip to California. His dad and mom do not recognize him at first and thought that he broke out, but he explains that he was out on parole. Toms mom thinks that jail drove him insane like Purty Boy Floyd, but is not insane. Grandma asked Casy to say a prayer and does, even though he is not religious anymore. Tom then hears that his two youngest siblings are in town and Rose, is expecting a child.
Later on, farmers are forced to sell everything that they can to get as much money that they can for the trip out west to California. Most people will only pay very low prices, but they have no choice but to take all the money they can. It really shows how desperate the people of the 30's really were. They had barely anything, and what they did have, they had to pawn off to other people just to get some extra money.