... met anybody like them. They have strong feelings, and when 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 ... have one great soul of which each individual has a small bit for himself. Casy accompanies Tom to his parents" farm, but when the two men reach the Joad place they find it deserted, the house falling down and cotton planted in the dooryard. From a neighbour, Muley Graves, they learn that the Joads (Tom's...

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• Grade Level: High School

... be broken, however, and will maintain their self-respect. Using colorful, unpolished language, the protagonists reveal who they really are -down to earth people of integrity and good-will. Tom Joad is not ashamed to admit where he has been the past four years because he paid for his crime, which he characterizes as something he would do again if the ... with the earth rather than with an intangible spiritual source. The people are, nevertheless, spiritual in their endeavors to do what is right and to maintain their humanity and dignity. Ma is portrayed as a loving, strong, calm and very...

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• Grade Level: High School