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Essay Archive - The Grapes of Wrath: Symbolic Characters
The Grapes of Wrath: Symbolic Characters
Struggling through such things as the depression, the Dust Bowl summers,
and trying to provide for their own families, which included finding somewhere
to travel to where life would be safe. Such is the story of the Joads. The
Joads were the main family in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, a book which
was written in order to show what a family was going through, at this time
period, and how they were trying to better their lives at the same time. It
wouldn't be enough for Steinbeck to simply write this story in very plain terms,
as anyone could ha....
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