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LANDMARK LITERATURE: Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath' is the classic story of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless.

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| December 05, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2007 The Buffalo News. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Andrew Z. Galarneau

Dec. 5--A couple glumly loads their children and everything they own into a car and leave town, hoping to find one of those jobs they've heard are so plentiful out of state. In Western New York, that's not just a scene from literary history. It would stand to reason, then, that John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath" would still strike home with readers here. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1940, Steinbeck's story of the Joad family's struggle to survive its uprooting from Oklahoma amid the Great Depression remains remarkably relevant for a novel nearly two-thirds of a century old. "One of the reasons "Grapes of Wrath' still speaks to us is that Steinbeck's analysis of…

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