THE GRAPES OF WRATH Plot: This is the story of the Joads, a family of Oklahoma sharecroppers. Unless you've spent a good deal of time in the rural South and Southwest, you've probably never met ... you see all they have to endure, you end up admiring them. As the story begins, Tom Joad, a young man of about thirty, is hitch-hiking home to his parents" farm in Oklahoma. He is dressed in cheap new clothes, for he has just been released from prison, on parole, after serving four yeas of a seven years" sentence for homicide. ... been thinking things over, he has become convinced that all men hav...

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• Grade Level: High School