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How does The Grapes of Wrath identify the effects of Americans' views on the Dust Bowl?

The story is an allegory for the conflicts between American values and the rise of the Communist party in the United States.

The story covers the rise of corporate farming and the devaluation of the small family farms that dotted the Great Plains.

The story accurately describes the impact the California vineyard industry had on migrant workers.

The story is a depiction of Oklahoma farmers and the difficulties they experienced migrating to California.

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there is no ideological "message" in this novel. Steinbeck describes Zeitgeist of the 1930s, spirit of time immediately after the Great Depression. At the same time we can see one of the crucial characteristic of American cultures - strong and still persistent characteristic of migration within the country (in the case of Oklahoma to California) which is something not so strong in other big countries (Russia, China, Brazil). The same feature of America is present in a beatnik writer, Jack Kerouak.

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