Steinbeck grew up in Salinas Valley, a rich agricultural area of Monterey County and the setting of many of his works, where he learned firsthand of the difficulties of farm laborers. ... Steinbeck turned to filmmaking after the film success of The Grapes of Wrath. ... (griolers) The works of Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by U.S. novelist John Steinbeck is one of the most powerful chronicles in American literature of the Depression of the 1930s. ... Groliers new encylopidea Benson, Jackson T., The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer: A Biography (1990); DeMott, R., ed., Working Da...

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Setting: 1930's, Oklahoma and California 2. ... Plot: In the beginning of the "The Grapes of Wrath," Tom Joad gets released from prison after four years for killing another man. ... Grampa agrees and says that when they get there, he will fill his mouth full of grapes. ... Reaction: The Grapes of Wrath was surprisingly an interesting book. ...

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck all have social problem involving the main character. ... Watson's big nigger, named Jim, was setting in the kitchen door, we could see him pretty clear". ... In The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck's specific writing style allow him to display his views of society through certain characters while yearning to modify the cruel, unjust society Americans live in. ... Steinbeck portrays the plight of the migrant Joad family from Oklahoma to California in search...

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Born in Salinas, California in 1902, Steinbeck grew up about 25 miles from the Pacific Coast, a location that would serve as the setting for some of his best novels. ... The three novels published at this point in Steinbeck's career were In Dubious Battle (1936), Of Mice and Men (1937), and his ever-famous The Grapes of Wrath (1939). After the best-selling success of The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck went to Mexico to collect marine life with the freelance biologist Edward F. ... Published 1975 The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights published in 1976 and finally Working Days: The Jour...

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Setting: The book starts out in Oklahoma, during the Dust Bowl of the 1930's. The ground is very dry and there is no work for the farmers. It seems nearly like a desert the way the author portrays it. The Joads find themselves in a Hooverville, or a run down shantytown, a government camp, which...

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