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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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        <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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        <title><![CDATA[Wheatpatch Camp, called Weedpatch Camp in the book, is much nicer than...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Wheatpatch Camp, called Weedpatch Camp in the book, is much nicer than the other camps the Joads have seen.  It is a government camp, and it is well run; Weedpatch is a place where Ma Joad knows that they will finally be "treated decent".  The camp is well-organized and neat, the tents set in neat rows, with no litter around them.  There are community "toilets and showers and wash tubs", and best of all, there is hot running water.  It...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Tom discovers that Jim Casy is a union organizer.  In contrast to the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Tom discovers that Jim Casy is a union organizer.  In contrast to the way he was when Tom last saw him, he is full of purpose and determination.  When Casy is attacked by men whose objective is to halt his union activity, Tom reacts with fury and fights back with deadly force.  He grabs the pick handle with which Casy has been killed and "club(s) a guy", perhaps killing him.
Jim Casy was a preacher, but by the time he set out west with...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does Tom discover about Casy and how is Casy different from what he...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What does Tom discover about Casy and how is Casy different from what he once was in Grapes of Wrath?]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Route 66 is an actual road, the number was given to it by the government...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Route 66 is an actual road, the number was given to it by the government so Steinbeck had no symbolic meaning for it in the book.  Route 66 has an interesting and colorful history because it was one of the first major highways that spanned a good deal of the United States - though it was hardly a highway by comparison to the highways we have today.  It was a two-lane road, not a wide multi-lane, separated stretch like we think of as a...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[i just want to ask: which were john steinbeck political ideas? To what...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[i just want to ask: which were john steinbeck political ideas? To what extent do they affect this plot and particulary this ideas? This speech is filled with iner communist sentiment and has too this liberation theology taste. It is remarkable that this theology emerged in Latianoamerica only in the 60'. This discurse is an early father of this form of understantanding christ's message. Finally, i understand this text was written on the...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[From his position manning the grill in the kitchen, Al keeps an eye on...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[From his position manning the grill in the kitchen, Al keeps an eye on the number of people who use the slot machines.  On "a paper pinned to the wall over the griddle", he records the usage in "three lines of marks in columns on the paper".  Al knows the frequency in which the machines allow a winner, and from referring to his paper, realizes that slot machine number three, which "gets more play'n the others", is "ready to pay off". ...]]></description>
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