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OKIE
(OH-kee)
Offensive
term for a migrant farm laborer, esp. one from Oklahoma in the
30s.
Common
clues:
tom Joad, e.g.; Muskogee native; Depression-era migrant; The
"Grapes of Wrath" character; Dust bowl refugee;
Steinbeck character
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Out the Vintage: Reflections on Steinbeck
The
Grapes of Wrath book cover
The
Grapes of Wrath
is a work of fiction published by John Steinbeck in 1939 (March
14th),
in which descriptive, narrative, and philosophical passages
succeed one another. Set in the Great Depression, this popular
proletarian novel tells the story of migrant workers (or
sharecroppers) leaving the Dust Bowl, and moving on. He follows
the Joad family, 'Okie'
farmers driven from their land by drought and forced to endure
the hardships of life as agricultural workers. En route to
California the grandparents die; on their arrival the surviving
members of the family are involved in strikes that turn violent,
and Tom, the son, kills a man. At the conclusion of the novel the
family shows resoluteness in the face of defeat.
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article "The Grapes of Wrath".
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