... all people as a general whole. In the next chapter, the book begins a narrative of the Tom Joad, an ex-convict searching for his family after a four-year sentence. This narrative also takes place in Oklahoma. This alternating pattern between passive historical chapters that involve no direct action, ... Texas, used advanced technology to farm, harvest, sow, and prepare the crops with little effort. Using technology, the banks quickly created commercial farms, colossal profits, no thoughts for living creatures and ruin into the lives of the citizens of the Oklahoma territory. The citizens...

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... 1). He was interested in people from the beginning, long before he had any theory to account for their ways (Beach 1). With this, Steinbeck chose novel writing as a career, despite his family's insistence for a more prosaic career (Millichap 3153). This traumatic rejection of middle-class values would be an important factor in shaping his fiction (Millichap 3153). He grew up in a frustrated ... of social problems, particularly the plight of migrant agricultural workers in California's fertile valley (Millichap 3157). From this idea the design for The Grapes of Wrath emerged, which follo...

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The purpose of the New Deal was to provide relief (providing jobs for the unemployed and to protect farms from foreclosure), recovery (to get the economy back into high gear), and reform (to regulate banks, to abolish child labour and to conserve farm lands), and overall to save capitalism ... and shelter given to these men which would help them live comfortably, this relief effort most importantly helped provide a source of income for these employed men as well as their family back home. 250 000 young Americans had served in the CC by August 1933 and by 1938 2 million men had served in the ...

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