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The wrath of God

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This is for English class. We are reading "The Grapes of Wrath" and we have to do a project on it. We had a choice of things to do. My choice was to make a series of pictures. This is the first drawing for it.

Steinbeck makes so many Bible references in The Grapes of Wrath, it's not even funny. The idea is that people were really bad in the 20's getting rich, making gangs, drinking despite alcohol being illegal due to prohibition. Then, immediately afterwards, America faced the Stock Market Crash, The Great Depression, and the Dust Bowl. This can be easily seen as being the work of God much like the famines that hit Egypt in the old testament when people were being bad, or like Sodom and Gomorrah being burned by fire.

So there's a pretty little shack in the approximate area of where the dust bowl was, around the Texas/ Oklahoma area. Granted, I wasn't going for accuracy. It's somewhere in the middle of the United States. The Hand of God is coming with the Dust storms that hit the area. This whole thing is very symbolic. Just like the book itself. So, yeah.

Reading this book is depressing...
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I live in kansas and this is kind of scary lol.  Good job.