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looks up to Tom, but
begins to find his own way. Rose of
Sharon (said as
Rosasharn) Joad Rivers: the
eldest Joad daughter, a
childish and
dreamy teenage...
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During the
rainy season,
Rosasharn goes into labor, but
delivers a
stillborn child. Ma asks
Uncle John to go bury
Moses while Rosasharn recovers to ease her...
- –
August 9, 2005) was an
American actress, best
known for her role as
Rosasharn in The
Grapes of Wrath.
Dorris Estelle Bowdon was born on
December 27...
- 'Vulcan'), the
national flower of Malaysia. Rose of Sharon,
pronounced "
Rosasharn," is
occasionally a
personal name. Most famously, a
character named Rose...
-
Grapewin as
William James "Grandpa" Joad
Dorris Bowdon as Rose of
Sharon "
Rosasharn" Joad
Russell Simpson as "Pa" Joad O. Z.
Whitehead as Al Joad John Qualen...
- John Steinbeck's The
Grapes of
Wrath (1939). At the end of the novel,
Rosasharn (Rose of Sharon)
nurses a sick and
starving man in the
corner of a barn...
-
account of two still-born babies,
mirrored in Steinbeck's
description of
Rosasharn's baby.
Among other scenes and
themes repeated in both books: the villainy...
