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The Grapes Of Wrath: Symbolism
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February 28, 1997
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
live under. The novel tells of one families migration west to California through
the great economic depression of the 1930' ....
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....dust is symbolic of
the erosion of the lives of the people. The dust is synonymous with “deadness”.
The land is ruined, way of life (farming) gone, people uprooted an forced to
leave. Secondly, the dust stands for profiteering banks in the background that
squeeze the life out of the land by forcing the people off the land. The soil,
the people (farmers) have been drained of life and are exploited.
The last rain fell on the red and gray county of Oklahoma in early May. The
weeds became a dar.... |
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