ng to help the poor man and his sons. But the vagrant farmers have pride, and they do not want to take charity. They want to earn their way into a new life. And California has come to represent everything good to these poor farmers and their families.
             The basic plot of the story is that the Joad family is a group of poor, Oklahoman farmers who have been thrown off their land by a bank because the land is no longer fertile. One of the family's sons, Tom, has just been rele
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