... 1930's drove many farmers west in search for jobs and put many others on the streets. In this time of pain and suffering the Joad family in John Steinbeck's classic novel, The Grapes of Wrath, represent the families of thousands as they deal with the hardships of the depression face to face in their own adventure to California. During the 1920's the United States was in a dream ... others was also shown by fellow immigrants as was apparent the time a small child died and everyone tried to spare a few coins so that the child could have a decent burial (Steinbeck 307). Ma's display of aff...

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... south refused at first to accept government help, optimistically believing that better days were ahead. Some moved out of the plains, running from not only drought but from the new machine-controlled agriculture. As John Steinbeck wrote in the bestseller The Grapes of Wrath, "it was not nature that broke the people-they could handle the drought. It was business farming, seeking a better ... the changes that were needed to save the southern plains. Other groups outside of the government tried to help the plains with their own plan of attack. Local women's groups were organized in places ...

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