The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck · 1939 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Modernist

Tom Joad comes home on parole to find the family farm tractored off the land and Oklahoma dust blowing over what is left. The family loads a truck and drives Route 66 west on the promise of picking work, losing people at every camp and finding wages falling as they arrive. A family's ruin widening into one human family.

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• alludes to ↑ Genesis
  Anonymous · c. 550 BCE · Scripture
• ↑ The Book of Exodus
  Hebrew scripture · c. 550 BCE · Scripture — prefigures this
• ↓ The Grapes of Wrath
  John Ford · 1940 CE · Film — adapts this

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