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Summary of The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath is about the Joad family’s flight from their repossessed Oklahoma farmlands in search of the dreamland of California: a place where you can eat all the fruit you want and where work is plentiful. It begins with Tom Joad, the oldest son, getting out ....
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.... jobs and the people there call them “Oakies” derogatorily. Pa becomes highly upset, but Tom says there’s no use going back now that they’ve come so far. A sheriff comes and threatens to arrest the Joads if they don’t leave before morning. They leave without the Wilsons because Sairy Wilson is sick, and Noah (Tom’s brother) decides to stay behind.
After the Joads cross the desert, Ma tells them that Granma died in the car on the way through. She didn’t tell them before because she knew they had to cross quickly. They camp in a Hooverville for a day, and a ma ....
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