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Essay Archive - Summary of Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath"
Summary of Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath"
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 family
were not making enough profit to keep the land. The trip to California
begins the Joad family which includes: Grandpa, Pa, Tom, Noah, Rose of
Sharon, Ruthie and Winfield, Uncle John, Al, Ma, and Tom who has just got
out of jail brings along a former preacher Jim Casey. They buy a used
tru....
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