Billie Jo shares her desire to leave Oklahoma and to get away from the Dust Bowl, as well as her desire to leave the pain of the deaths of her mother and brother. As the family left, Billie Jo wishes she could leave with them.
"...all of them crammed inside that rusty old truck. I ran half a mile in their dust to catch them...but they didn't hear me. They were heading west. And no one was looking back." Winter 1935 Page 124
Billie Jo wants so badly to be able to leave. She keeps seeing people being able to leave and find a better life else where. Yet she doesn't have anyone that will go West with her. Billie Jo feels very alone in the world. She wishes her father would go West so she could go with him.
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