"Grampa didn’ die tonight. He died the minute you took ‘im off the place…He was that place, an’ he knowed it."
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 13. Grampa Joad’s life was over when he was separated from the home and the land he loved and had a deep connection with, Jim Casy says. Grampa’s death is the first on the Joads’ journey west, but it won’t be the last.