Word: granma
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...first half of the story takes them to the California line-a 1,500-mile journey of breakdowns, exhaustion, sickness, death (Grampa dies the second day, Granma as they cross the desert), persecution by cops, tourist-camp proprietors, of miseries to make the old pioneers turn in their graves...
...alive, John Steinbeck has created a book of sweeping movement and feeling. The Joads of Oklahoma start with "the little fellas Ruthie an' Winfiel'", and 'teenish Al, and Rose-of-Sharon and husband Connie, and twentyish Tom and Noah; then it goes through Ma, Pa, and Uncle John to Granma and Granpa. They are individuals, but only in an emotional way; their natures are interesting for their hearts and their spirit, not their minds...