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Grapes of Wrath

            The story of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath starts out with Tom Joad coming home from a 4-year jail sentence for murder. He was going back to his family's farm in Oklahoma. On the way there he meets another man, Jim Casy. When they get close to home they find deserted farms. Banks evicted tenant farmers because the drought caused their crops to fail. Another factor was that big tractors were taking the jobs of men. The Joad family was one of the families forced off their land. Tom finds his family at his Uncle John's farm. Steinbeck describes how the dust bowl developed and pushed the farmers out of the western plains states in the first few chapters of the book. .
             The Joad family decided to move to California because of an advertisement Ma Joad received advertising jobs picking crops. Before the dust bowl, the roles of men and women were traditional. The men did the hard work outside of the home, and the women worked in their homes. One early event that foreshadows the change in gender roles so apparent at the end of the book is when Casy salts the meat with Ma Joad and she wants him to stop because she considers that "women's work-. Later in the story, at Weedpatch farm, the women had to work right alongside the men because the contractors were paying so cheap. It took everyone's labor to feed the family and still sometimes families went hungry.
             The "Okies- from the dust bowl became the prey of others along the road to California. Steinbeck described how car salesmen were cheating farmers by selling overpriced junk cars and overpriced parts to the "Okies."" He showed a world where many people were concerned only for themselves. The nave "Okies- were not expecting people to cheat them or take advantage of how desperate they were. People along the road to California saw the "Okies- as poor, migrant beggars and thieves. .
             When the Joads finally get on the road, they experience much traffic on the highway because lots of other farmers received the same ad Ma Joad received.


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