The book "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck teaches you about government by showing how "okies" migrant to California looking for work since the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression hit. Many of people lost their homes, cars, money, and dignity. With the Joad's as they travel, they met with dark underside of capitalism with its uncontrolled poverty, its inhuman greed and human cost, and sense a fractured trust between government and people. The book is design to inform the public on the Migrant's plight. It shows how migrants were made to starve by California landowners and banks just so they could turn a profit. It shows many ways they cheated the migrants out of money and keep them from organizing unions.

The major climax of the book is when Tom Joad leaves his family. He leaves because h

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Approximate Word count = 543
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)