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Summary Of The Turtle Of Wrath Chapter 3

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In chapter 3, the turtle is used as a symbol for the Okies, and the other farmers trying to survive during the dust bowl. This turtle goes on a journey to get from the grassland, the familiar home the okies know, to the highway, the unknown territory they are yet to come to. California is industrial and advanced, nothing these farmers have ever seen, but in these grave times they have to make this journey for their future. Steinbeck hints that this is about the Okies when he says that the turtle “came over the grass leaving a beaten trail behind him, and the hill, which was the highway embankment, reared up ahead of him” (20). The hardships of this journey foreshadow possible difficulties the Joad's may have to encounter on their journey to
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