Grapes of Wrath Summary One

So I have officially decided in my mind that the novel that is called The Grapes of Wrath written by John Steinbeck was pretty boring. This is basically what I picked out of the book :

So the setting is in the early to late 1930's. Or at least when the Dust Bowl existed and there were Okies and all of that kind of stuff. Anyway, there is the man, Tom Joad, who gets released from jail. Tom served in jail because he killed someone. Now he is on probabation which is why he is out. But Tom is heading home to see his family's farm somewhere else in Oklahoma. On his way back to his father and mother's home, Tom runs into the former preacher, Jim Casy. Casy is no longer a preacher and his given up his holy ways. They talk a while, then Tom leaves to see his family's house, to which Jim accompanies him to. When ever Tom and Jim get to Tom's family's home, they see that it is deserted. Then one of the neighbors happens to walk by. He talks to Tom and tells him that Tom's family and most of the others in the area have left for California to find work. Tom decides to head to his Uncle's house and believes he will find his family at his Uncle's home. So Tom leaves for the house and sure enough he meets his father, mother, as well as other members of his family at the house. Ma and Pa Joad tell Tom they are leaving for California because they had seen advertisements for fruit picking jobs there. They are hoping to find a better life for themselves. The Joads begin their California and the road is long and crowded. They travel along route 66 along with thousands of other cars heading to California in search for work. Soon Tom's Granpa dies on the road of a stroke diagnosed by Jim Casy. The Joads meet the car troubled Wilson family and let the Wilsons travel with them to California. Close to the California border however, a Wilson becomes sick and is unable to continue.