Grapes of Wrath, Chapters 1-11: 5 out of 8 questions 1.What does the setting of the opening scene suggest about the rest of the novel? ... In chapter 1, the reader is told the story of how the great migration came to be in an almost biblical "Genesis" tone, "The surface of the earth crusted, a thin hard crust, and as the sky became pale, so the earth became pale, pink in the red country and white in the grey country." ...

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