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The Grapes of Wrath
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During the Great Depression in the United States, large tracts of farmland in Oklahoma were dry for a long time, and the vast number of farmers fell into desperation. The down-and-out Joads were forced to leave their homes and travel westward across the impassable desert in a battered vintage Ford to find a safe haven in California. On the way, the elderly grandfather and grandmother died one after another, Joad's brother Noah quietly left, Joad's friend Casey was killed, and Joad was also hunted down. Although the family survived and the future is uncertain, but the mother still encourages everyone to live tenaciously.
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Ma Joad: Rich fellas come up an' they die, an' their kids ain't no good an' they die out. But we keep a'comin'. We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out; they can't lick us. We'll go on forever, Pa, 'cause we're the people.
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[the family is leaving the farm, heading for California]
Al Joad: Ain't you gonna look back, Ma? Give the ol' place a last look?
Ma Joad: We're going' to California, ain't we? All right then let's go to California.
Al Joad: That don't sound like you, Ma. You never was like that before.
Ma Joad: I never had my house pushed over before. Never had my family stuck out on the road. Never had to lose everything I had in life.