... the people off the land. The soil, the farmers have been drained of life and are exploited: "The last rain fell on the red and gray country of Oklahoma in early May. The weeds became a dark green to protect themselves from the sun's unyielding rays....The wind grew stronger, uprooting the weakened corn, and the air became so filled with dust that the stars were not visible at night." (Chapter 1) Throughout the novel there are several symbols ... of anyone else. Early in the novel, Rand provides the reader with a description of a paradoxical world, lacking identity and individuality. As ...

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... changed, even `shit-heels` must remain. `The Grapes of Wrath` is evaluated as a document rather as a novel. Even 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 ... there: the plagues (erosion), the Egyptians (the banks), the exodus (journey) and the hostile tribes of (California...

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