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Connections to the Grapes of Wrath
The first painting reminds me of the near end of the joads' trip to California. When they describe the Californian countryside for the first time, it is lush and green and full of life, unlike where they used to live, on the barren and arid great plains. The second painting reminds me of the first time Tom sees his old home once he gets out of prison, it is completely devoid of life, and without a trace of what had happened to the people who resided in it, and where they went. The description of overgrowth is also very similar to the growth in the painting.