The novel, The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, forced out of their Oklahoma farms by agriculture disasters (dust bowls) the Joads family begins a journey to the promise land of California and like many other migrants and immigrants have before them. As they travel cross-country they face the blunt realities of an America divided into haves and have-nots. However, the majority of each character's personality happens to lie within what they are to the Joad …showed first 75 words of 503 total…

…showed last 75 words of 503 total…the poor Christian members of society. Aside from these occurrences, there lies a great deal of others. Steinbeck clearly presents Jim Casey as a representation of Christ in the first portion of the story. The author uses the character of Jim Casey as a vessel to portray the importance of religion in peoples' lives in such times of hardship, when a family's unity and faith in God were the only things that kept them going.