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…Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones Shel Silverstein A Light in the Attic John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men & The Grapes of Wrath Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn & Tom Sawyer John Updike Rabbit is Rich…

…, by the name of John Steinbeck, grew up during the Depression near the fertile Salinas Valley and wrote many books of fiction based on his background and experiences during that time and area of the country. One of his greatest works would be the Grapes of Wrath…

…and the Giant Peach, The Grapes of Wrath, Black Beauty, and Lord of the Flies. Most of these books are award-winning classics but due to censorship some people may never get the chance to read them. Black Beauty has been removed from shelves because it depicts…

…chief problem faced by the people of the time was the idea of trying to survive the low quality of work available at the time. People worked as migrant workers, very similar to those in Jon Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. People would work tedious jobs…

…, no matter how hard he tried he never won an Oscar. He lost to people who were safe and who were embodiments of America, such as John Ford for The Grapes of Wrath, not innovators. Finally, in April of 1968, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences…

…experimented with many forms: In Dubious Battle, Of Mice and Men “Steinbeck achieved the same structural soundness in a complex narrative” (French 61), and The Grapes of Wrath (considered to be his masterpiece) focus on the California laboring class; he wrote…

…by the Israeli army. The Israeli’s launched “Operation Grapes of Wrath” as the 4th major incursion and bombing of Lebanon. The operation lasted 16 days (Amnesty). The Israeli’s blasted southern Lebanon and Beirut killing about 200 civilians and wounding 500 more…

…through poor country. Such migrations were a dominant social reality and theme of '30s artists. Now we can dwell a while on migration, as both the narrative structure and theme of the '30s classic novel, The Grapes of Wrath. In John Steinbeck's novel the Joads…

…, The Grapes of Wrath (1939) won the 1940 Pulitzer prize. The novel tells the story of the Joads, a poor Oklahoma farming family, who migrated to California in search of better life during the Great Depression in the 1930's. Steinbeck adequately demonstrated how…

…shows the gallons of wines produced compared to the number of winemaking facilities. Product technology, at the surface, is not a real issue in this case. Wine is made from grapes and grapes grow in vineyards. There is very little room to apply technology…