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Always shunning publicity, steinbeck headed for mexico in 1940, where he made the forgotten village, a documentary film about conditions in rural mexico. Check here and also read some short description about the grapes of wrath. Picked up a play write instead of a the book itself, as i was looking for an interpretation and some dramatization of the toughest period on human kind we could be in one too these days. Summary and analysis chapter 30 summary pa and uncle john, realizing that the rising water will eventually flood the cars, ask the other boxcar dwellers to work together to build an embankment to stem the water. At one point, he wrote that he feared the book was going to pieces. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. This serious masterpiece has its setting during the.
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