Adults during this time are trying to find jobs, and when they found a job they most likely have to travel, causing them to leave their family and feel some type of loneliness. ... In the novella Of Mice and Men Curley's Wife was the only woman on the farm and was quite lonely. Curley's wife gets treated very differently from the other people on the farm. ... Many of the men on the farm think that Curley's wife is a whore so they leave her alone anyways. ... During the Great Depression many people became lonely because they had to leave their family to find jobs, especially migr...

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• Grade Level: High School

He was going back to his family's farm in Oklahoma. ... When they get close to home they find deserted farms. ... The Joad family was one of the families forced off their land. Tom finds his family at his Uncle John's farm. ... Later in the story, at Weedpatch farm, the women had to work right alongside the men because the contractors were paying so cheap. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Very few made enough money to feed a large family. ... After a short time they go together to find the Joad family. ... Tom is exploring a peach farm when he runs into Casy and a group of men. The group is leading a boycott against the peach farm because of low wages. ... Jim Casy in The Grapes of Wrath is like a Jesus Christ to the migrant farm workers. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

By the mid-1930s, the drought had crippled countless farm families, and America had fallen into the Great Depression. Unable to earn money they like many other farm families they traveled to California with hopes of finding work. But the farm country of California quickly became overcrowded with people in the same situation. ... The men on the farm call her names like "tramp and "looloo". ... They had to uproot and set adrift because tractors were rapidly industrializing their farms. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Grapes are used as metaphors for the anger and bitterness of the migrant families (including the Joads who are the novel's central family) that are forced to leave their land and homes. ... For instance, they are forced off of their farm, lose family members, and are faced with having to find money, food, and shelter. ... Everything the turtle encounters tries to stop it from reaching its destination; the same can be said about the Joad family. ... Once the tractors flatten the Joad farm, Tom finds that the only living thing left near the house is a cat which emerges when he returns home ...

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• Grade Level: High School

George and Lenny spend their time traveling from farm to farm, working and saving their income, because they want to purchase their own farm. ... Although he does not do much work on the ranch, he can do small odd jobs around the farm. ... All of the men on the farm spread rumors about her, and all conversations about her are negative. ... Sadly, she never received any letters, and blamed it all on her family, and then left home. ... The farm that the two were planning to purchase-yet never reach-has a unique quality. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It tells the story of the Joad family from the time of their eviction on their farm in Oklahoma, to their first winter in California. ... The opening chapter describes the lives of farm owners dealing with the drought in Oklahoma along with a dust storm. ... After meeting Jim Casy in chapter four, they finally reach the Joad farm that has been deserted and damaged. Next, they learn from Muley Graves, a neighbor, that Tom's family was evicted, so both Tom and Casy travel onwards to family relative, Uncle John's home, in hopes of catching up with Tom's family before their big m...

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• Grade Level: High School

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 devoted several years to his most ambitious project, East of Eden (1952; film, 1955), which paralleled the history of his mother's family and was an allegorical modernization of the biblical story of Adam. ... It deals with the Joads, a family that loses its farm through foreclosure and leaves the Oklahoma Dust Bowl for California in the hope of finding work. ... They share the dream of someday...

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• Grade Level: High School

The novel, The Grapes of Wrath, concerns a group of people labeled "Okies" in the nineteen-thirties who were driven from their farms and from their land during the Dust Bowl (a period of severe drought). ... This novel is about two lower class farm hands that travel from town to town attempting to find a steady job. ... A quote from Chapter Seventeen in The Grapes of Wrath provides another example of how Steinbeck alluded to Bible stories: "The families learned what rights must be observed - the right of privacy in the tent; the right to keep the past black hidden in the heart; the right to ...

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THE GRAPES OF WRATH The Grapes of Wrath is a novel by John Steinbeck that exposes the desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families of America during the 1930's lived under. ... the Joad family had to abandon their home and their livelihoods. They had to uproot and set adrift because tractors were rapidly industrializing their farms. ... Times were rough for the Joad family as well as many other families. ... This turtle is like the Joad family because they are also faced with many obstacles while trying to tra...

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• Grade Level: High School

THE GRAPES OF WRATH The Grapes of Wrath is a novel by John Steinbeck that exposes the desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families of America during the 1930's lived under. ... the Joad family had to abandon their home and their livelihoods. They had to uproot and set adrift because tractors were rapidly industrializing their farms. ... Times were rough for the Joad family as well as many other families. ... This turtle is like the Joad family because they are also faced with many obstacles while trying to tra...

• Word Count: 1596
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• Grade Level: High School

He was born into a middle class family and was the third of four children being the only boy (Hamilton 26). ... The book is about two laborers during the depression who have a dream of saving money to start up a rabbit farm. ... The book is about how a family is forced from their farm during the dustbowl depression era and they migrate west to California for a better and more sustainable life. ... He's known most for his writing about families and relating it to problems he's faced in his life and has lived through. ... Steinbeck had a lot of influences from his family, for example h...

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• Grade Level: High School

The story spans thirty-six years and nearly three generations of two American families living in California from 1862 and 1918. ... In Dubious Battle was about a farm workers" strike in California. ... Through the beginning of chapter three, Steinbeck gives more of his family history, even though his grandfather, Samuel Hamilton, still has no relevance in the story. ... She crawls to a nearby house, which happens to be Adam and Charles Trask's farm. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Joads, as well as thousands of other families, were forced to leave the homes they lived in and the lands they farmed on for many generations (Hinton 1). ... Young family members often times took to the roads and the rails on their own fearing that they were a burden to be taken care of for their families. ... Steinbeck makes it a point to show how the Joads are only one of many families enduring these hardships as it was apparent that friends and other families were taking the same journey. The loss of family members such as when Grandpa dies on the trip was not an uncommon occurrence...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As a result, some farmers, lost so much money that they could not pay the mortgage on their farm. ... When the Joads lose their tenant farm in Oklahoma, they join thousands of others, traveling the narrow concrete highways toward California and the dream of a piece of land to call their own. ... These desperate migrant families, upon their arrival, frightened the established citizens of California and were labeled "Okies," a derogatory term referring to any outcast from the Southwest or northern plain states. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

His family came to Salinas as conquerors of the frontier. ... Steinbeck was a small town boy, but he lived close to the country and spent much time around the farms just outside of Salinas. ... The book is about the a family of migrant workers moving from the dustbowl in Oklahoma to the Salinas Valley to work as tenant farmers. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

His family came to Salinas as conquerors of the frontier. ... Steinbeck was a small town boy, but he lived close to the country and spent much time around the farms just outside of Salinas. ... The book is about the a family of migrant workers moving from the dustbowl in Oklahoma to the Salinas Valley to work as tenant farmers. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In 1902, he was born February 27th in the Salinas family home. ... The following year, 1930, he married Carl Henning and moved to the family home in Pacific Grove. ... In 1938, "The Grapes of Wrath" inspired nationwide attention on the living conditions and exploitation of farm workers. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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In each family of characters there are "good" characters and "bad" characters. Since the novel focuses on various families, Steinbeck is able to show these differences repeatedly. ... This is a replication of when Cain and Abel both brought offerings to God; Cain brought the fruit that he had farmed, and Abel brought large portions of the flocks that he had herded. ... The novel transitions into a new set of characters and a new story of the Bible when Adam begins a family of his own. ... Aron dies soon after in battle and the news reaches the family. ...

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• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Isolation in Of Mice and Men To be isolated is to be separated from other persons or things according to The Random House College Dictionary Revised Edition. Isolation is the result of not being able to interact with peoples other than those directly around you. As illustrated by many classic ...

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Of Mice and Men If you have read the novel 'Of Mice and Men' and are anything like me, then the novel will have held you captivated. During the 1930s, in which the novel was set, an economic disaster was taking place. It was very difficult to find a job at this time, because of this man-made catast...

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• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School