BBC News - In Steinbeck's footsteps: America's middle-class underclass: "In The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck describes the harrowing journey of the Joad family - migrant workers forced to leave their home during the Great Depression - a story still relevant to those facing the realities of America's current economic crisis.
'To the red country, and part of the gray country of Oklahoma the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth…' That is how Steinbeck begins The Grapes of Wrath.
This year the last rains came in May to western Oklahoma. They lasted long enough to produce the last alfalfa crop but the winter wheat was already lost."
Thursday, July 28, 2011
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