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The Grapes of Wrath, a novel by John Steinbeck, exposes the desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families of America during the 1930's live under. The novel tells of the Joad family's migration west to California through the great economic depressi ....

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.... there are many members of the family that stand out in self-conceit. One person is Tom Joad, one of Ma and Pa Joad's children. He has recently been released from prison and seems to be concerned only for himself. He wakes each morning only wanting work for money and food for his stomach. But throughout the novel Tom learns many lessons, especially of those by Jim Casy, his old preacher-friend. Jim Casy, a man representative of Jesus Christ in both his initials "J.C." and in his beliefs. The preacher is the one character that throughout the novel always knows what he must do: to help those less fortunate fight in anyway possible in order to get what t ....