... prose. In Gwendolyn Bennett's "Lines Written at the Grave of Alexandre Dumas," Bennett speaks of cemeteries as "places for departed souls [and] roving spirits."92 In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck tells the story of a migrant family traveling with the former preacher, Jim Casy, who is seen by Ma and the other women as a kind of messiah. Their strange perception of ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School