![]() ![]() Grampa walked up and slapped Tom on the chest, and his eyes grinned with affection and pride.Hope of heaven when their lives ain’t lived? Holy Sperit when their own sperit is downcast an’ sad? They gonna need help no preachin' can give 'em. I gotta see them folks that’s gone out on the road.The last rains lifted the corn quickly, and scattered weed colonies and grass along the sides of the roads so that the gray country and the dark red country began to disappear under a green cover. The plows crossed and recrossed the rivulet marks. To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.Quotes Page numbers based on Penguin edition, 1992, ISBN 9780143039433 It tells the saga of Tom Joad, his family and his friends, as they try to survive the Dust Bowl. The Grapes of Wrath ( 1939) is a classic American novel by John Steinbeck. The great owners, nervous, sensing a change, knowing nothing of the nature of the change. The Western States, nervous as horses before a thunder storm. ![]() ![]() ![]() The western land, nervous under the beginning change. ![]()
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