The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, is a story that follows a family living in the Midwest as they travel to California in search of a new beginning. The Joad family was one of many thousands that lost their home and land shortly after the depression. A horrible drought had fallen upon the mid-west. This drought ultimately resulted in banking institutions foreclosing on the properties of countless numbers of farms because the owners were …showed first 75 words of 1427 total…

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