Summary Of Steinbeck's "The Grapes Of Wrath"
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Synopsis:
The Grapes of Wrath is a story about the Joad family and their 1800
mile journey to the supposedly job plentiful California. The family in the
beginning of the book were sharecroppers in Oklahoma and were soon thrown
off their land by the bank. There had been a long drought and the fam ....
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when it did when they started. They soon discover that the jobs in
California are not plentiful at all and they are not welcome because they
are migrants. They do eventually find work but at wages which are so low
it is hard for them to even pay for food. Because of the current financial
state of the family they have to settle for living in squalid camps which
are called Hoovervilles. Tom gets into a fight at one of the camps with an
abusive deputy. The sheriff soon comes to arrest ....
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