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If you’ve seen the movie One Battle After Another there is a tense scene about 3/4 through where the characters are amidst a riot and music is blaring and you know something is about to happen… somehow Steinbeck has managed to make this same kind of heightened tension in a book about a family on the road in the dust bowl… pretty impressive

“And the truck rolled down the mountain into the great valley.” (242)

Chapter 17 is one of my all time favorite chapters of any book. It is a beautiful picture of the value of community. Special chapter.

“Highway 66 is the main migrant road. 66-the long concrete path across the county…”