Chapters 22-25

We start out chapter 22 with the Joads arriving at Weedpatch, which is a government sponsored place for people to live in what they think is luxury. They meet a man and he directs them to where they can camp out, which is neer sanitary unit 4. They think the sanitary units are amazing because of the running water. Tom is up early the next morning and walks around the camp. He hears metal on metal and searches for the noise and finds Timothy and Wilkie Wallace and joins them for breakfast. They tell them that there is a place about a mile up the road where they are working for 30 cents and hour and invite him to come along with them. He runs back to his camp and tells Ruthie to tell Ma that he found work and that he has eaten breakfast. It is very generous of the Wallaces' to tell him about work, cause it would be just as easy to let them suffer or to tell them there is no work left there. When they arrive, they boss informs them that the pay has been cut from 30 cents to 25 cents an hour. Later, the rest of the Joads try to find work in the orchards. Ma is back at camp still and is visited by the owner, Jim Rawley and chats for a while. Rose of Sharon is just sitting at camp and a very religious lady comes by and warns her about the dances. How not to dance and sin or else her baby will be born dead and bloody.
Later, it is time for the dance and Rose of Sharon is scared for her baby because she does not want to lose her baby and decides not to dance because of this fear. During the dances, they have people constantly watching for fights which is very smart because they can kep the cops out this way. And what do you know, a fight breaks out because some guy broke up another couples dance. How rude! They quickly get to them and kick them out. They confess that they have been paid money to start a riot and get the cops in there.