Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath
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The Grapes of Wrath, a novel by John Steinbeck, exposes the
desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families of America
during the 1930's live under. The novel tells of the Joad family's
migration west to California through the great economic depression of the
1930's. The tries and tri ....
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.... than himself and the
farm.
Yet along the trip there are many members of the family that stand
out in self-conceit. One person is Tom Joad, one of Ma and Pa Joad's
children. He has recently been released from prison and seems to be
concerned only for himself. He wakes each morning only wanting work for
money and food for his stomach. But throughout the novel Tom learns many
lessons, especially of those by Jim Casy, his old preacher-friend. Jim Casy,
a man representative of Jesus Christ in b ....
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