The story of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath starts out with Tom Joad coming home from a 4-year jail sentence for murder. He was going back to his family's farm in Oklahoma. On the way there he meets another man, Jim Casy. When they get close to home they find deserted farms. Banks evicted tenant farmers because the drought caused their ... Steinbeck describes how the dust bowl developed and pushed the farmers out of the western plains states in the first few chapters of the book. The Joad family decided to move to California because of an advertisement Ma Joad received advertising jobs...

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... chapter fourteen, in one of the intercalary chapters the narrator asserts that humans are "unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe."- They have a will to survive that is unmatched by anything else in naure (Steinbeck 29). In stark and moving detail, John Steinbeck depicts the lives of ordinary people striving to preserve their humanity in the face of social and economic desperation. The Grapes of Wrath is a novel about and ... words "You don't know what you"re a-doin"". To further add to it's biblical significance, The Grapes of Wrath is written in much the same styl...

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• Grade Level: High School