forced to leave their long-time home and find work and a new life elsewhere.

They, like many other families, moved to California. "The land of milk and

honey". The people in the dust bowl imagined California as a haven of jobs

where they would have nice little white hose and as much fruit as they could

eat. This dream was far from the reality the migrant farmers faced once in

California. The dreams, hopes, and expectations the Joads had California were

crushed by the reality of the actual situation in this land of hate and prejudice.

The Joads dream of owning a nice white house and being overwhelmed with

fruit was quickly put to end after their first night in California. Ma exclaims, "But

I like to think how nice it's gonna be, maybe, in California. Never cold. An' fruite

ever'place, an' people just bein' in the nicest places, little white houses in among

the orange trees." They had been lied to by the handbills and other propaganda

that was circulating in the dust bowl region. The growers in California knew

that the people of the dust bowl would have to leave their houses because of the

while Tom, Al, and Casey were fixing the car. There was a ragged man there

their first taste that the rumors they had heard on the road about California, were

stop to camp. The men go down to the river to get cool and encounter a man

couldn't stay where they were and without a goal to reach, something to look

dust bowl hit but no one can except those facts so they must tell themselves it

migrants who were returning home, mostly destroyed by the true reality of

there than it was here. Unfortunately that wasn't the reality of the situation and

During the long journey to California the Joads, and other migrant travelers,

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Approximate Word count = 1181
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)