... that of the Joad family. They present a less detailed "examination" of the great migration, a drift away from the sharp naturalistic representation of life through the family. In chapter 1, the reader is told the story of how the great migration came to be in an almost biblical "Genesis" tone, "The surface of the earth crusted, a thin hard crust, and as the sky became pale, so the earth became pale, pink in the red country and white in the grey country." (Steinbeck, 1) Later in chapter 3, the land ... other memorabilia which she chose to discard. The Grapes of Wrath, Chapters 12-18: The...

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