American Literature / Unit 15 AML 1432 short lesson, about 20 seconds
*The Grapes of Wrath*
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The idea
Published in nineteen thirty-nine, the novel follows the Joads from a foreclosed Oklahoma farm to California, alternating their story with short chapters that widen to the whole migration. It was attacked as propaganda and read as a national accusation.
In practice
One family, and a hundred thousand others.
Where people slip
The interchapters generalize the family's case.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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