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    company produces a specific Muscadine grape with high antioxidant and he was looking to promote this product, the grapes themselves and the various products that were developed using the seeds. This was a great opportunity for both of us and he agreed to send a sample as a trial. The product was well received by the consumer and it was decided to have it as one of the items for sale at my business. My company started ordering this product from the Muscadine grape company on a regular basis,…

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    Form, structure, and plot: The Grapes of Wrath story structure split into two parts; One part is focused on a migrating family called the Joads and the other part was focused on a broader view of what was happening during that time period. The impact of structure is allowing the reader to have a better understanding of the hardships that the main characters went through. The even chapters in this book are from a view on the Joad family. This quote is within chapter 4: "Oh, I heard. Ma sent me a…

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    film. During the Dustbowl a lot of people were forced out of their homes because they couldn’t find work, grow crops and make money. Most of these people moved to California in search of jobs and a new life for them and their family. In the film “The Grapes of Wrath”, it follows the Joad family on their journey to California, looking for jobs. On their way there they face diversity and many other problems that is keeping them from their new life. They stay in 3 different location that show the…

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    In The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Rose of Sharon’s relatable character represents hope for humanity as America grows unstable. This novel takes place during the Great Depression of the 1930s as well as during the Dust Bowl. Throughout this struggle, migrants from all over pack up their belongings and move to California in search of work. Within this novel, the Joad family migrates from Oklahoma to California after giving up their lives on the farm to find jobs. Rose of Sharon is an…

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    “The Grapes of Wrath” The film starts off with a man by the name of Tom Joad walking down a dirt road in Oklahoma. Joad encounters a man driving a truck and he asks for a lift. The man takes him as far as he can and on the way Joad explains that he was a convict for homicide. It is later learned that he killed a man with a shovel, which is explained to the former priest that baptized Tom. Tom explains that he is heading back to reunite with his family after being put on parole 4 years into his…

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    The text, Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck is one of the most popular books in America today. The book starts out in Oklahoma during the 1930s. In this novel, the Joads are forced off their property and without work. Ma Joad hears of work in California and the Joad family heads westward hoping to find some source of income. Steinbeck describes all the struggles that they endured and the novel ends with no hope for the Joad family to survive. Timothy Tennyson points out, “The Grapes of Wrath…

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    Romanticism is the artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe. The strongest theme within The Grapes of Wrath that portrays romanticism is innocence and experience. In Steinbeck’s novel the main characters must migrate from their own fields of innocence in Oklahoma to the experience of highway Route 66 to California. Each character in the novel is affected differently by this ambiguity. Muley and Grandpa being the most stubborn…

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    During the infamous depression of the 1930’s, the combined evils of America’s economic downturn and the Dust Bowl drought left many southern farming families landless, weak, and subject to relentlessly vexing circumstances. John Steinbeck’s novel, The Grapes of Wrath, tells the story of these displaced farmers and their travels, whilst also intertwining within the plot, a profound use of symbolism in various forms to convey the adversity and trying attitudes of society during the time. Steinbeck…

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    Grapes of Wrath Assignment 1. The actor’s work of Grapes of Wrath represents an internal/representational performance of characters who lived during the Great Depression. During the performance, we see a detailed vision of each character’s mind state. For example, throughout the performance we see Tom being the one helping his family and others in need of assistance whether working, fighting police officers etc. The mother is always finding ways to help her family through looking for money,…

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    In the opening chapter of one through eleven of “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbach, tells of the Dust Bowl drought that swept through Oklahoma and how it affected the homes and livelihood of the sharecroppers (Steinbach 2-4). Tom Joad, in chapter two, finds himself riding with a truck driver after having served four years in prison at a place called McAlester. He had been locked up after being in a drunken brawl and killing a man (Steinbach 4-12). Chapter three tell of a turtle crossing the…

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