1. grapes of wrath
This developed into what he called his "spoken word" writing style. ... Steinbeck believed that a book (the Bible) was much realer than experience (O'Connor, p16). The description of the Joads' travels in The Grapes of Wrath parallels the Hebrew migration from the plagues of Egypt, across the desert, and into Canaan - in the Joads' case, California (O'Connor, p67). ... (Steinbeck, 1939, p265) How the Joads had to learn new rules to accompany their new life parallels how the Jews had to receive their new laws through Moses (O'Connor, p68). ... These novels reflect Ste...
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