Ameerika kirjandus alates I maailmasõjast kuni tänapäevani.
Peoples patience becomes to an end. They are mostly illiterate. They come from
oklahoma, where dust, bad crops, erosion, finally forced them to leave their land. Moreover
banks in Oklahoma find it more profitable to buy up individual farms and create huge
plantations and grow only cotton. Finally such small landowners are forced to give up their
land and farms. Three generations of Joad's family are depicted in the book, Steinberg does
not idealize them. They are illiterate, very suspicious, ignorat, quick tempered and crude-
unsophistaicaded. However there are good qualities too, family comes first with them, there is
wisdom, generosity, courage and persistance. Steinberg paints the portraits with ove and
humour. The first generation we have Grandpa and Grandma. The founders of the family, they
die at the end of the journey, their death is symbolical. Grandpa is lusty and indescent. And
grandma is very religious and bios and sufferind all the time. Pa, Ma-father and mother, Pa is
annaabi.ee 
