1. grapes of wrath
... the Joads' travels in The Grapes of Wrath parallels the Hebrew migration from the plagues of Egypt, across the desert, and into Canaan - in the Joads' case, California (O'Connor, p67). A quote from Chapter Seventeen in The Grapes of Wrath provides another example of how Steinbeck alluded to Bible stories: "The families learned what rights must be observed - the right of privacy in the tent; the right to keep the past black hidden in the heart; the ... right to talk and to listen; the right to refuse help or to accept..." (Steinbeck, 1939, p265) How the Joads had to learn ... references ...
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