Summary: The Grapes Of Wrath

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The Grapes of Wrath Every large society was created and was built through lies and deceit and is sustained through the exploitation of other is a central theme of the book The Grapes of Wrath. This idea conveys most obviously through the authors passages that describe the society in California during and before the Dust Bowl. The story of the book focuses on a family that moves to California because they have been told that there is an abundance of work and opportunity there. This as we find out, is a lie perpetuated by owners of the large farms to trick desperate people into moving to California so they can pay their workers less and maintain a society in which they have almost all the wealth, while the common people have almost nothing.