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Film Review: The Grapes of Wrath
The film The Grapes of Wrath, directed by John Ford, pragmatically depicts the conditions, both cultural and economic, during the Great Depression. The film specifically focuses on the "Dust Bowl" in the 1930s. The main focus of The Grapes of Wrath is the journey of the Joad family. The family is forced to leave their farm in Oklahoma due to the tyranny imposed by banks and big mechanized companies who bought the lands. When the family leaves their farm, they travel en route for California hoping to find work. Their goal is to try their best to survive among the thousands of other migrant workers.
Unfortunately, the farm families were unable to reimburse the landowners due to the many droughts that had ruined their crops. Although the crops were destroyed by the droughts, that wasn't the only obstacle in their path. The dust storms blew away millions of acres of rich topsoil because of this the family was unable to grow crops on their......

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