Jim Casy Analysis

When Tom Joad sees Jim Casy as he walks to the Joad ranch after being dropped off from the truck, he asks Jim Casy if he preaches anymore because he remembers Jim Casy as a preacher. Jim Casy says he does not preach anymore because he does not believe in God. After he went into the forest and rediscovered more about life, he changed the way. Jim Casy has moved on from what he used to do to a new understanding to religion and life.

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The boys were progressing along with the prison escape. They’ve managed to saw off the leg of Jim’s bed, and had gotten ill from eating the sawdust in order to cover up the evidence, neither of which were necessary for prison break. Meanwhile, Silas had contacted a plantation asking about Jim, the runaway slave. Huck figured that the news would soon spread to Miss Watson. Tom said now they would write the anonymous letters to the Phelps that were basically threats. In addition, the two drew a skull and crossbones on the front door and a coffin on the back door. To make Jim’s escape even more exciting and blood-rushing as it is, Tom wrote another letter to the Phelps introducing himself as a thief and warning the family that the band of thieves were planning to steal the runaway

In this chapter Tom is sad because Becky had gotten mad at him. Becky thought that Tom didn't like her because he was talking about another girl named Amy Laurence. Tom ran to the forest to get away from everybody and think about what had happened. Tom decided he wanted to run away and become an outlaw. Earlier he had put one marble in the ground. He tried a chant to see if the one marble turned into many but it did not work. Then Joe Harper wanted to play with tom so they decided to change the forest into Sherwood Forest and play Robin Hood. Tom and Joe decided they would rather be outlaws then be the

Mark Twain uses Tom to show that not all leaders should be followed without question because if a leader is not questioned than their misshapen beliefs can corrupt the good intentions of the people below them. When Huck originally planned to free Jim he had constructed a simple plan to free Jim from captivity. When Tom became part of the plan he argues that the plan “it’s too blame’ simple; there ain’t nothing TO it. What’s the good of a plan that ain’t no more trouble than that?”. This shows that Tom is fully invested in the story of the mighty rescue of a slave but he was not invested in the true nature of going against society and free a man who they deemed belonged in captivity. Tom is a man who lives to be part of romanticized stories

When Tom began his journey with Casy, he disregarded most of Casy’s ideas and beliefs towards mankind. Tom considered the ex-preacher odd for his values straying so far away from belief in deity to belief in humanity. But, Casy’s ideology developed throughout the span of the novel and Tom was taking it in whether he intended to or not. It was when Tom had the time to stop and reflect that he saw the wonder in Casy’s teachings. He finally agreed with everything Casy had been telling him all along.This brought into light the importance of truly listening to one’s ideas, no matter how ridiculous they may seem. Those ideas ended up being Tom’s saving grace and what he believed would be the world’s as well. Tom’s developmental pivot point marked the value of listening to others as sometimes the world needs someone to think outside of the box.

At this point, Tom had taken the next step into the Allegory of the Cave, taking the walkway to go explore the world. Towards the end of the book, Casy protests for higher wages and better working conditions. The strike upsets big business and causes people to hunt him down. They find him in a cave and before Tom could even realize it, Casy is killed by a “club crashed into the side of his head..” (386). Steinbeck needed to kill Casy in order to get his message, sacrifice equals change, across. Steinbeck created the character Jim Casy, as a reference to Jesus Christ, to make him a leader that everyone believed in. Soon after Casy dies, Ma and Tom are debating on where Tom should go to find safety. Tom quotes part of a phrase that Casy used to tell him: "Two are better than one...For if they fall, the one will lif' up his fellow"(418). Jim Casy had successfully taken Tom out of the cave, he had convinced him that the world outside of the cave was better than he had ever imagined. Casy taught Tom that the world needed to work together in order for change to happen, even if it meant sacrifice.

After planning and executing one of the most needlessly complex rescue plans, considering Jim has no one guarding him, they begin to run away. Someone peruses them and Tom is shot in the leg. Huck goes for a doctor, and Jim sacrifices freedom to help Tom. The escape proves to be pointless, as Jim was already a free man. Miss Watson added to her will that Jim would be free after death, and she died two months earlier. To add to this, Jim revels that a house floating on the river they looted had Pap’s gun-shot body inside.

Explanation: After Tom Sawyer was shot while carrying out the plan to free Jim, Jim prioritizes Tom’s safety and health before his own freedom. This is an extremely noble gesture by Jim, which clearly shows his kindness and consideration towards others, enough to risk his own dreams and goals as a free man. Jim breaks the negative stereotypes that are placed upon African Americans and justifies that African Americans are able to be just as respectable as whites.

In a sense, Tom represents the civilized society that Huck and Jim leave behind on their flight down the river. When Tom reappears with his fancied notions of escape from the Phelps farm, Jim again becomes a gullible slave and Huck becomes a simple agent to Tom. There is no doubt that Tom is intelligent, and he does state that they will free Jim immediately if there is trouble, but the ensuing ruse suggests that Tom is unable to shake society and the Romantic idealism he possesses, even when Jim 's freedom is at stake.

Sean Daley is quite an accomplished musician for someone yet to graduate high school. He’s played the trumpet for a decade, and has picked up trombone, flugelhorn, French horn, harmonica, piano and drums in the past few years. He also plays in the jazz band, sings, transcribes and composes music and participates in drama club. He even won both the John Philip Sousa Band Award and the Louis Armstrong Jazz Band Award, both usually awarded to seniors, in his junior year – a first for the Rensselaer City School District.

Steinbeck creates Jim Casy as a Christ-like figure for the purpose of the other characters. Steinbeck uses the name Jim Casy to help represent his function because his initials are J.C. like Jesus Christ. He is there to help Tom and his family, find who they really and what their purpose is. Casy helps the family with chores, like salting the meat, which ultimately convinced Ma to let him come to California. He is also there to listen and talk with the people to keep them motivated and have them believe there will be a day when it all gets better. Casy also helps in a bigger way when he goes to jail instead of Tom, because he knows Tom is on parole. He sacrificed himself to help the

He realizes that he should continue what Casy was doing, and continue his teachings. As he transforms from the man who believes in every man for himself to the man who understands and believes in two is better than one, it represents his religious rebirth. The character’s realization is important to the novel because these are Steinbeck’s philosophies as well. They really enforce the ideas that “…if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone... and a three-fold cord is not quickly broken.” (pg. 418) He believes what Casy said that we are only a small part of a larger whole and, “…a fella ain’t got a soul of his own, but on’y a piece of a big one…” (pg. 419) which is connected to the belief that Christians are all brothers and sisters in Christ and a part of

At the end of the novel, the big revelation is startling, but it does not mean Tom is inexcusably cruel. Tom Sawyer has known all along that Jim was a free man, because Miss Watson had died, but he never told Jim. Tom wasn’t being cruel, however, he

At first, Tom only cared about himself and how he would succeed. Pretty soon, he has the same line of thinking as Preacher Jim Casy. “[sic] I’ll be ever’where-wherever you look. Wherever they’s a fight so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there. Wherever they’s a cop beatin’ up a guy, I’ll be there” (Steinbeck 537). Tom is talking about how he wants to organize a strike like what Casy did. He believes that if everyone joins together, then the cops can not touch them. He forgot about what is best for