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Movie: The Grapes Of Wrath - The people and the Depression


In the movie The grapes of Wrath, the Joads undergo the hit of the
depression, they have to leave their farm. They go to California for jobs, but
find there are few jobs, and it pays little, or at least less then what they
were told. The government tried to start programs to house and employ people
like the Joads. Since the people who already lived in the cities in which these
developments were put didn't want them there anyway, they tried to start a riot
and have the police Arrest them. Although in the movie the plan was foiled, it
could have worked in many other places, or the towns folk could have just
created a lynch mob, and eventually the people living in the development would
leave.
I believe that the economic situation of the country has a great effect
on the fall, or succession of people like the Joads, but I don't believe
government programs will effect them at all. For example, the great depression......

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