Many important things happen in the last five chapters of The Grapes of Wrath. After living in the migrant governed town for about a month, The Joads decide they need to move on. They get a job picking peaches, but only earn a dollar. They family manages to get something for dinner, but they are all stiff hungry.
Tom finds Casy, but they get in a fight with some people. Casy ends up gettting bashed in the head and dying, and Tom kills the man who killed Casy. After Casy dies Tom decides he is going to carry out what Casy was doing. That is, get people together to protest against what is happening to them.
The Joads soon find a job at a cotton field. The pay is pretty good, but there are a lot of people who want to work there. The Joads live in a boxcar with another family, the Wainwrights. Ruthie, the youngest daughter gets in a fight with another little girl, and she blurts out that her brother has killed two men. In fear of her son, Ma Joad tells Tom to leave. Later, Al announces that he and Agnes Wainwright are engaged.
Soon, it begins to rain. It rains A LOT. Cars are flooded and float away, and people get stuck where they are. During the downpour, Rose of Sharon has her baby in the boxcar. It is born a still born. The family sends Uncle John to bury the baby.
After a few days the boxcar starts to flood like everything else. The family decides to find higher ground, but Al stays behind with Agnes. The family comes across a barn with a man and a boy inside. The man is dying of starvation. Ma Joad gives Rose of Sharon a look. Right then, Rose of Sharon understands what she has to do. She asks everyone to leave. Then, Rose of Sharon, just being pregnant but without a child, nurses the man from her own breast. This sacrifice shows that Rose of Sharon has grown up a lot since Connie left and after her baby died.
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