... are also facing discrimination by the Californians.  The Californians fear that the migrant farmers will organize and will control the state.  By calling the migrant farmers Okies, the farmers begin to feel degraded and belittled.  The following quotations from The Grapes of Wrath help exemplify the collisions between the individual workmen and the individual bourgeoisie and the fluctuating wages that the laborers endure. In the opposite point of view, The Grapes of Wrath, as discussed in Harold Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations John Steinbeck's/The Grapes of Wrath, develop...

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... , today. Ma's burning of the stationary box symbolizes the death of an old life, and the start of a new one. The box contained old documents including "a newspaper clipping on which there was an account of Tom's trial" (Steinbeck, 148) and other memorabilia which she chose to discard. The Grapes of Wrath, Chapters 12-18: The Migration 1.What is the first unpleasant event that occurs on the Joad's journey? What does ... that event portend about what lies ahead? The first unpleasant thing to happen on the Joad's family is the death of their dog, which ironically symbolizes the pain to be h...

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... have the illusion of being lifted"90 and carried by a large, strong, and swift man. He is "yellow like the sunlight, and there [is] a smell of ripe cornfields about him."91 During the Roaring Twenties, the Harlem Renaissance produced eerie poetry and prose. In Gwendolyn Bennett's "Lines Written at the Grave of Alexandre Dumas," Bennett speaks of cemeteries as "places for departed souls [and] roving spirits."92 In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck tells the story of ... a migrant family traveling with the former preacher, Jim Casy, who is seen by Ma and the other women as a kind of mes...

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