... the sharp naturalistic representation of life through the family. In chapter 1, the reader is told the story of how the great migration came to be in an almost biblical "Genesis" tone, "The surface of the earth crusted, a thin hard crust, and as the sky became pale, so the earth became pale, pink in the red country and white in the grey ... , "We gonna see you get through you said so yourself, you cant let help go unwanted."(Steinbeck, 203) It is this event when "I lost my land" [turns into] "we lost our land"" (Steinbeck, 206), that changed the two families from "I" to "we". 4.What is t...

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