The narrative begins just after Tom Joad is paroled from McAlester prison for homicide.

Tom Joad witnesses the killing of Casy and kills the attacker, becoming a fugitive.

* Tom Joad – Protagonist of the story ; the Joad family's second son, named after his father.

* Pa Joad – patriarch, also named Tom, age 50.

* Uncle John Joad – Older brother of Pa Joad ( Tom describes him as " a fella about 60 ", but the narrator later tells you he is 50 ), feels responsible for the death of his young wife years before when he ignored her pleas for a doctor because he thought she just had a stomachache, when she actually had a burst appendix.

* Al Joad – The second youngest son, a " smart-aleck sixteen-year-older " who cares mainly for cars and girls ; looks up to Tom, but begins to find his own way.

He made his Hollywood debut in 1935, and his career gained momentum after his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, a 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl.

Fonda's successes led Ford to recruit him to play " Tom Joad " in the film version of John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath ( 1940 ).

* Woody Guthrie's " Bound For Glory " and " The Ballad Of Tom Joad "

Tom Joad ( Henry Fonda ) watches a freight train steam over the Pecos River railroad bridge, into the sunset.

Sometimes Oklahomans refer to the state prison simply as " Big Mac " or " McAlester ," and the town is referenced in that manner in the opening pages of The Grapes of Wrath when Tom Joad is released from there.

*" Youngstown " ( song ), a Bruce Springsteen song from the 1995 album The Ghost of Tom Joad

The range is also featured in the song " Youngstown ", by Bruce Springsteen, from his 1995 album The Ghost of Tom Joad:

Steinbeck's novel was itself an allegorical spiritual journey by Tom Joad through America during the Great Depression, and often made Christian allusions to sacrifice and redemption in a world of social injustice.

** Bruce Springsteen for The Ghost of Tom Joad

* 2000: Renegades-Rage Against the Machine ( Producer, " The Ghost of Tom Joad ")

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** Bruce Springsteen for The Ghost of Tom Joad

* In The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Rose of Sharon ( often called " Rosasharn ") is a major character, the eldest daughter of the Joad family and the sister of the protagonist Tom Joad.

* Brendan O ' Brien – Producer of " The Ghost Of Tom Joad "

* D. Sardy – Mixing of " The Ghost Of Tom Joad " and " Street Fighting Man "

In the United States, arguably the most successful inheritor of the tradition is Bruce Springsteen, often focusing more on industrial decline in songs like " Youngstown " on his 1995 album The Ghost of Tom Joad.

" In the same article, the Reverend Al Sharpton ( whose fictional analogue in the novel is " Reverend Bacon ") asserts that " twenty years later, the cynicism of The Bonfire of the Vanities is as out of style as Tom Wolfe's wardrobe.

Along with Tom Verlaine, in 1971 Hell also published under the pseudonym Theresa Stern, a fictional poet whose photo was actually a combination of both his and Verlaine's faces, in drag, superimposed over one another to create a new identity.

John Patrick " Jack " Ryan, Sr. is a fictional character created by Tom Clancy who appears in many of his novels and their respective film adaptations.

John Clark ( real name John Terrence Kelly ) is a fictional character created by Tom Clancy who appears in many of Clancy's novels.

* Huckleberry Finn ( character ), a fictional character in the Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Of the constant tone output capability, designer Tom Danley wrote that the " target 94 dB at 250 meters is not the essentially fictional ' burst ' or ' peak SPL ' nonsense in pro sound, or like the ' death burp ' signal used in car sound contests.

Thomas Hughes ( like his fictional hero, Tom Brown ) once carved his name onto the hands of the school clock, situated on a tower above the Old Quad.

Many of Tom Swift's fictional inventions either mirrored or presaged actual technological developments.

Tom Swift, Jr .' s Cold War-era adventures and inventions are often motivated by patriotism, as Tom repeatedly defeats the evil agents of the fictional " Kranjovia " and " Brungaria ", the latter a place that critic Francis Molson describes as " a vaguely Eastern European country, which is strongly opposed to the Swifts and the U. S. Hence, the Swifts ' opposition to and competition with the Brungarians is both personal and patriotic.

Tom Swift's fictional inventions have directly inspired several actual inventions, among them Lee Felsenstein's " Tom Swift Terminal ", which " drove the creation of an early personal computer known as the Sol ", and the taser.

In Farmer's books a number of historical figures-including Sir Richard Burton, Alice Hargreaves, Samuel Clemens, King John of England, Cyrano de Bergerac, Tom Mix, Mozart, Jack London, Lothar von Richthofen and Hermann Göring-interact with fictional characters in a quest to discover the purpose behind the creation of Riverworld and their reincarnation.

Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE is a fictional character created by George MacDonald Fraser ( 1925 – 2008 ), but based on the character " Flashman " in Tom Brown's Schooldays ( 1857 ), a semi-autobiographical work by Thomas Hughes ( 1822 – 1896 ).

He then tried to get into " society " by sponsoring bare-knuckle boxer Tom Molineaux ( the first black man to contend for a championship ) and subsequently married Flashman's mother Lady Alicia Paget, a fictional relation of the real Marquess of Anglesey.

Characters from other fictional works appear occasionally, notably Sherlock Holmes and some of the boys from Tom Brown's Schooldays.

; Tom Tomorrow ( fictional )

The rest of the novel incorporates several narratives, including Zampanò's report on the fictional film ; Truant's autobiographical interjections ; a small transcript of part of the film from Navidson's brother, Tom ; a small transcript of interviews of many people regarding The Navidson Record by Navidson's wife, Karen ; and occasional brief notes by unidentified editors, all woven together by a mass of footnotes.

* Tom Baldwin ( The 4400 ), a fictional character

The second major film was All the Right Moves, a high school football drama set in the fictional town of Ampipe and featuring Tom Cruise, Lea Thompson and Craig T. Nelson.

* Many of the characters from Mark Twain's fiction ( primarily The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ) were from the fictional town of St. Petersberg, which was supposed to parallel Hannibal

* Tom Foss, fictional character from Kyle XY

The first film was a realistic depiction of the OK Corral shootout and its aftermath, while the second centered around a fictional relationship between Earp and silent movie cowboy star Tom Mix ; the real-life Earp actually was a consultant on some early silent Westerns toward the end of his life.

He also appeared as a fictional version of himself in the episode of The Simpsons entitled " Homer and Apu " and in five episodes of Family Guy entitled " Peter's Got Woods ", " Back to the Woods ", " Brian Griffin's House of Payne, " And Then There Were Fewer ", and " Tom Tucker: The Man and His Dream ".

* The Emir ; a fictional representation of Osama Bin Laden in the Tom Clancy books, The Teeth of the Tiger, Dead or Alive and Locked On.