" I ain't gonna lie to ya, it has been one of the hardes' things I ever had to go through in my life. You got to understan', the fambly was fallin' apar' an' I couldn' let that. I knew that if shar'd Granma's death we would a-have to stop, an' we needed to git to California, I told her that. She was a-layin' a-stiff an' DEAD righ' there beside me an' I knew, an' I couldn' tell no one. I fel' so desolated, so shattered. Granma a-needed to die, she was a-very sick an' sufferin' too much. Not sayin' that I wesh she died but I didn' want her a-sufferin' no more. But what crushed me was havin' to deal with it all by my self. I don't regret it though, it was a-good an' the fambly needed it to git to California."
---Ma Joad
Quote to illustrate this: " Tom said, 'Jesus Christ! You layin' there with her all night long!' 'The fambly hadda get acrost,' Ma said miserably. Tome moved close to put his hand on her shoulder. 'Don't touch me, ' she said. 'I'll hol' up if you don' touch me. That'd get me.'" (Steinbeck, pg 229)
---Ale Lopez and Dani Antillon
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