'California's Grapes Of Wrath'

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This passage is of chapter twenty-five in which California’s ripe land is elegantly described. The context is specifically directed towards the original Californian farmers who always experienced a great harvest prior to the dust bowl era. Following such natural disaster and a mass immigration to the great state of California, cheap labor opportunities skyrocketed . This ultimately drove labor costs down, and the original Californian farmers, who worked so hard on their crops, could no longer afford to harvest them. This meant they had to turn their produce over to greedy governmental businesses. This leads to the above quote that claims the creator cannot even enjoy their creation. This only leads to greater issues, event the eventual burning

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