Summary Of "The Grapes Of Wrath"
Beginning of paper
Because of the devastating disaster of the dust bowl, the Joad
family was forced to leave their long-time home and find work and a new
life elsewhere. They, like many other families, moved to California. "The
land of milk and honey". The people in the dust bowl imagined California
as a haven of ....
Middle of paper
.... had been
lied to by the handbills and other propaganda that was circulating in the
dust bowl region. The growers in California knew that the people of the
dust bowl would have to leave their houses because of the crisis. They
also knew the more pickers they had the lower they could make their prices.
The number of handbills sent out far out numbered the number of jobs
available. Many people in the dust bowl were constructing a view of
California that was devastatingly false. However most o ....
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