... aside from this fact, the novel had the vulnerability of all social fiction - it was subject to attack on it facts. Steinbeck was accused of giving an untrue picture of migrants` life (for example in `Grapes of Gladness` and `The Truth About John Steinbeck and the Migrants`); however, professors of sociology, ministers and government officials put themselves on record that the writer ... and the farmers; Chapter 7 and 9 depict the selling of household goods; Chapter 11 describes a decaying and deserted house). The other function of the interchapters is the providing of historical inform...

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... Okies," a derogatory term referring to any outcast from the Southwest or northern plain states. There is tension between the novel's rhetorical and narrative facts. Steinbeck writes about the migrants of the dust bowl, not for them; they do not have the income or leisure for reading such novels. Instead, Steinbeck ... writes for the middle class American. One of his goals is to educate those readers about the prejudice against people like the Joads. As soon as the Joads reach California, they are confronted with the epithet "okie" and an attitude ... is based upon three strands of 19th ...

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