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Water In The Grapes Of Wrath

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Water is symbolized as many different things in religion. The water represented in Grapes of Wrath, to me signifies rebirth and life. Muslims believe that all life was created with water, and in Grapes of Wrath this is shown. The Joads running away from their dried up farm land in Oklahoma, where they could not survive; because of the lack of water, dream of the fresh and juicy fruits in California. “Never cold. And ' fruit ever 'place, an ' people just bein ' in the nicest places, little white houses in among the orange trees”(61). Leaving Oklahoma where they could have not survived because the drought, California represented not only a new start, but life and survival. In other religions like Christianity water used for baptism cleanses

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