In the Bible, there is the story of Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt and into the Promised Land. They experience many hardships over their sixty-year journey in the wilderness. The Joads" journey in The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, is a very similar journey. John Steinbeck uses allusion to the Bible to enhance the novel's meaning. The similarity between the Joads" journey and the Israelites journey aids in enhancing the work's meaning. There was a great drought in the Midwest in the 1930s ... that made the ... ...

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