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While not everyone saw
eye-to-eye all the time, parents and children got along well. His
father saw that John had talent and encouraged him to become a writer.
His mother at first wanted John to be a banker- a real irony when
you consider what Steinbeck says about banks in The Grapes of Wrath-
but she changed her mind when John began spending hours in his room
scrawling stories and writing articles for the school paper. Later
in life, Steinbeck denied that his family served as a model for the
Joads in The Grapes of Wrath. But both families understood well the
meaning of family unity.

As a boy, John roamed the woods and meadows near his home and
explored the caves. He swam in the creeks and water holes and became
acquainted with the ways of nature. He developed a feel for the
land. Each year the Salinas River flooded and then dried up, and
John began to understand the cycles of seasons. He saw that weather
was more than just something that might cancel a picnic. He saw ...

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