Topic > come to further conclusions in their faith. Steinbeck also uses things to foreshadow things that will happen in the book but also to symbolize things in the Christian journey itself, such as the chapter on the death of the turtle and the grandfather. While the entire book signifies the trials and tests that occur throughout the Christian spiritual journey, it all starts at the beginning to prepare us for the rest of the book. At the beginning of the book we are faced with the destruction of the Dust Bowl at this time. point that is going through a drought and nothing is growing. Critics see this as a connection to the Bible because the… center of the card… simply represents ideas for their faith journey. Steinbeck used Jim Casy as a leader who was changed from simply leading with words to leading with actions. The book begins with Tom Joad because he is Casy's student who we follow to the end and learn as he learns. Steinbeck also throws symbols at the reader that warn us that this journey will be hard and stressful and at the end of the book he doesn't say exactly what happens at all because the reader is supposed to take what he has learned and apply it to the end and create his own ideas until the end. Many critics may say that this book has many connections in the book, but they looked at it from a structural Christian perspective, but Steinbeck wrote the book with a more spiritual view. To connect Christianity to the spiritual as they were meant to be, to create a deeper faith in God.