In the novel, The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck describes a family's journey from Oklahoma to California during the 1930s. The Joad Family has to move to California because they cannot survive the horrible Dust Bowl in Oklahoma. They encounter many problems during their journey, but they still manage to make it to California. Steinbeck inserts inner chapters to show a picture of society in general. Many of these inner chapters foreshadow problems that the Joad family will encounter. In Chapter Five, an inner chapter, land owners in Oklahoma are forced to kick the tenant families off of their land. The owners say, "The tenant system won't work anymore. One man on a tractor can take the place of twelve or fourteen families"(Steinbeck 42). When Tom meets Muley in the next chapter, Muley says that the land owners tol....

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