... workers that he puts into unions. Poverty is considered the antagonist. Poverty is what makes many of the people in Tom Joad's hometown to migrate into California to get jobs. 3. Plot: In the beginning of the "The Grapes of Wrath," Tom Joad gets released from prison after four years for killing another man. He gets picked up by a driver who asks ... Tom about himself. Tom explains that he is going back to his Father's farm. The driver is surprised that his family has not been driven off by a "cat " (a large tractor sent by landowners and bankers to force poor farmers off the land). He g...

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• Grade Level: High School

... not stay that way for long. As the family got less and less opportunities for good jobs, he got more agitated, and it finally came to a head. At the cotton farm, Tom realized he could not stay out of other peoples" business, and he started to help form workers" unions and better the lives of others. Ma Joad, Tom's mother, was ... thoughts in ways people would understand. He was making labor unions and striking for better wages, but this is not without a downfall. Jim was killed by a police officer in a skirmish. Plot: The plot begins when we first meet Tom. He was walking down a road wh...

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• Grade Level: High School

... , Uncle John, and Ma; as well as their close friend Casy, an ex-reverend. The bank had bought most of the crops in Oklahoma and 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 ... not present itself in this way. It includes a complex writing system that appeals to the youth by its simplicity, and to the elderly through its intricate, interwoven, and unequivocally realistic plot. The Grapes of Wrath sho...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate