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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the The Grapes of Wrath Group at eNotes.</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[At the Hooper Ranch, where the family picked peaches, life was very...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[At the Hooper Ranch, where the family picked peaches, life was very hard.  Fruit had to be picked carefully to avoid bruising the fruit. Since the ranch was not near a town, food was purchased from the store on the property where prices were higher than normal.  That made the family have to be even more frugal with their meager earnings.  The people running the farm were surly and suspicious people, checking the family's name several times...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[For the Joads in "The Grapes of Wrath" book, how is life different at...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[For the Joads in "The Grapes of Wrath" book, how is life different at the Hooper ranch camp?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The "I" becomes "we" idea is an excellent one.
John Steinbeck's The...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The "I" becomes "we" idea is an excellent one.
John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath is a tale of perseverance and survival as well as a story of the search for meaning and purpose in life, for a single family and a nation.
As the novel begins, the Joads, like so many of their friends and neighbors, are at a desparate turning point in their lives. They are forced to give up the home they have loved and lived in all their lives to find a new...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:09:00 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Essay on the Grapes of Wrath.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Essay on the Grapes of Wrath.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:36:42 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The land turtle in chapter 3 has perseverance, blind faith, and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The land turtle in chapter 3 has perseverance, blind faith, and ignorance.  First, it keep struggling to cross the road even despite the struggles against traffic.  Without perseverance, the turtle would have given up and stayed on the side of the road it was on.  Next, blind faith is apparent because the turtle has no guarantee that there is anything better on the other side of the road, but he still ventures across.  Finally, ignorance...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:53:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Animals play an important symbolic role throughout this novel. What...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Animals play an important symbolic role throughout this novel. What important qualties does the land turtle have as described in chapter 3?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Grapes of Wrath, The - Novel Test]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thank you so much this has helped incredibly. I pretty much have the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Thank you so much this has helped incredibly. I pretty much have the base of my paper taken care of. Do you have any suggestions for a hook sentance for the introductory paragraph. I can't think of anything to draw the reader in. Thanks]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Throughout "The Grapes of Wrath," Ma holds the family together. After...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Throughout "The Grapes of Wrath," Ma holds the family together. After the men return from selling everything they can, the family

met at the most important place, near the truck.  The house was dead, and the fields were dead; but this truck was the active think, the living principle.

As the men squat near it, the women stand with their hands on their hips behind them.  Steinbeck writes that Grampa "was still the titular head, but he no...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Interestingly, the images of desperation, desolation, and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Interestingly, the images of desperation, desolation, and determination that are prevalent in John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" are portrayed both in the narrative and in the intercalary chapters that provide documentary information.
The first of the intercalary chapters, Chapter One presents a tableaux of the "red...and gray country of Oklahoma" where the "last rains...did not cut the scarred earth."  Thus, the tone is set for...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Grapes of Wrath is a wonderful example of social criticism.  Social...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Grapes of Wrath is a wonderful example of social criticism.  Social criticism is defined as a work which explores the problems present in a given society.  Among the societal problems emphasized in The Grapes of Wrath are the plight and exploitation of the migrant worker, the greed and corruption of big business, and the lack of government programs to deal with the problems.
 
Steinbeck gathered information for this novel by going into...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What are some quotes that show the family dynamics and relationships in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What are some quotes that show the family dynamics and relationships in The Grapes of Wrath?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What images does Steinbeck use to portray of America during the Dust...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What images does Steinbeck use to portray of America during the Dust Bowl and Great Depression?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Part of the reason why Steinbeck's work had such a wide appeal was...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Part of the reason why Steinbeck's work had such a wide appeal was because it spoke to a predicament that was not publicized in a broad manner.  In the wake of the Great Depression, the nation's attention fell to the banking sector, the individuals who typified the mass consumption and Jazz Age of the 1920s, and failed to examine the backbone of the Depression's effect on the farmers.  The novel's focus on how rural America was impacted by...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:49:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why does the Grapes of Wrath have such a wide spread appeal?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why does the Grapes of Wrath have such a wide spread appeal?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[I would pay attention to how the role of economics and wealth influences...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I would pay attention to how the role of economics and wealth influences the interactions between people.  Steinbeck demonstrates a strong tendency to showing how the relationships between groups of people are altered when economics and material conditions are involved.  In terms of how psychology is impacted by economics, Steinbeck shows that people in dire economic conditions can have elements of community present, but the fear of economic...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Grapes of Wrath, The - New Historicism Approach]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Grapes of Wrath, The - Feminist Approach]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Grapes of Wrath, The - Mythological/Archetypal Approach]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Pa is working on the truck, nailing the top rails on its sides when Tom...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Pa is working on the truck, nailing the top rails on its sides when Tom Joad first sees him.  Although he moves lithely, Pa is "an aging, graying man"  with "a grizzled, bearded face".  He is wearing

"a black, dirty slouch hat and a blue work shirt over which (is) a buttonless vest; his jeans (are) held up by a wide harness-leather belt with a big square brass buckle...his shoes (are) cracked and the soles swollen and boat-shaped from...]]></description>
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