... there is also a lot of industry in addition to the agriculture, something the Joads were not very familiar with before arriving in California. In short you could say that grandpa's and grandma's death though obviously a negative occurrence, positively affected the family and they were better off for it. Question 2 One of the more intriguing characters of John Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes of Wrath, is Uncle John. Uncle ... John played the role of the sinner who as a character served as ... Steinbeck's puppet, showing us the readers his views on sin and religion. He was extremely religio...

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... together more homes than it breaks up". In most ways, this is true according to the book, The Grapes of Wrath. The main characters, the Joad family, don't have much money so they try finding job opportunities in California. Throughout the whole book the family's bond gets stronger and stronger as they seek to lead a better life. Because of their lack of money and food, they had to ... work as a team in order for them to survive. Each of the family members performed ... women stayed behind and cooked. They supported each other the whole way through. When one of them was sick, the others...

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A Change In Attitude In the novel "The Grapes of Wrath", by John Steinbeck, the life of a migrant family, who is forced off their land in Oklahoma and who is in search of employment in California, is portrayed. During the course of the novel, the Joads move from a concern for themselves and their own personal welfare to a concern for all the people of the world. This becomes one of the major themes in the novel. It ... is traceable through many of the characters such as Jim Casey, Tom Joad ... , Ma Joad, and Rosa of Sharon. It is also traceable through many different actions taken by the Joad...

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The Foils: Tom and Tom The Great Depression was a trying time on almost all Americans. It was a time of poverty, confusion, and pathos. The Glass Menagerie and The Grapes of Wrath are works of literature set in this time period. They both focus on describing the lives of Americans trying to make their living. These books convey the difficulty and stress that families had to go through just ... to earn a pitiful living. Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath and Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie are both young adults who ... change he goes through is running away from his problems, which is as se...

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