Chapters 27-30

In the beginning of Chapter 27, cotton farmers are putting out signs for help for picking cotton. There are some people that don't have a bag for picking cotton and if they want to work, they are forced to pay a dollar for it. They always argue when weighing in their cotton because they workers think that the scale is crooked and they scale operators know there is rocks in the bag. Now we are back to the Joads, who are now living in box cars. They have to share with another family, the Wainwrights. Ma goes to the store to buy some food and supplies for the family, now that they are making some more money. She buys the kids two boxes of Cracker Jacks for Winfield and Ruthie. They are walking around and another girl wants her Cracker Jacks and picks a fight with her. During the fight, she says that her brother could kill her and Ruthie tells her that her brother has killed 2 people. That is probably not the smartest thing to start up around the camp because that puts him in a lot of danger. Ma decides to meet Tom and tell him about what she has said. Tom gives her some advice and she leaves him. Ma returns to the box car and meets a farmer of the way back. He informs her of job openings to pick a 20 acre lot. She hurries back to inform them of the job. Upon her return, she finds out that Al and Agnes Wainwright. The next day when they go to work, there is a huge amount of people there and are done picking by noon.