The Faith Of Jim Casy in "Grapes of Wrath"

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The joad family has known Jim Casy as the preacher but not any more. He was an honorable man with the good faith he has. He is respected and loved by the Joad family he has baptized the children he remembers the family from a long while back. He was a man of God. He was a “Burning Busher”(20). Back then he was called Reverend Jim Casy. He said to Tom Joad “I aint’t got the call any more got a lot of sinful idears but they seem kinda sensible.” He has lost the spirtual touch he once had. In the beginning of the book Jim Casy’s physical features are that he is a tall man with a long head. He was a very bony slender man. His eyes stuck out his eye lids were very heavy and overt. His cheeks were brown and vitrified they were hairless. His mouth was either amusing or sensual. He had a very distinctive forehead it was very large. His forehead was lined with frangible blue veins. He had grey hair, which was ossified. The clothes that he wore were blue overalls. A blue buttoned down shirt. A jean jacket with nice brass buttons he had a speckled brown hat on it was channeled. He had on canvas shoes. The thing that motivates him to change is when he is in the first camp that they go to and when a guy hits the deputy. The police come to restore order in the camp then he asks Jim Casy who hit him Casy sticks out his hands and says” I hit him” so they take him away he is happy because he knows he will have food and shelter. That’s how Jim Casy is motivated to change his physical features. In the middle of the book Jims Physical features don’t really change he is still tall slender and a very cared for kind of guy he gets a little older his cheeks tend to be a little more bony than before he does not have the same look. His eyes are hea... ... middle of paper ... ... let ‘im get to his work.”(144) This is what he said that night when Grandpa Joad lay to rest in the Oklahoma earth. This is the thing that motivates Jim Casy to change spiritually. He breaks down emotionally. In the middle of the book when they are headed to California the Grandma gets sick. When the family arrives in California they have to stop to do a agricultural check the grandma’s face was cold and pale. They had to bury her in the California earth. This is what Casy said to grandma joad when she was laid to rest. He didn’t say much it is just hard sometimes when someone passes away that you hold dear to them. They are the ones who always know what to do. What to say. Be respected by the grandparents they are very wise and know a lot when the grandma and grampa joad died Casy fell apart. That’s how Casy fell apart spiritually in the middle of the book.

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