Write a letter from Margot’s perspective to her cousin back on Earth. Explain why you want to return to Earth, how the other children treat you, and why you think they behave this way toward you. Use evidence from the text to support your point.

Read this excerpt from the grapes of wrath: snub-nosed monsters, raising the dust and sticking theirsnouts into it, straight down the country, across thecountry through fences, through dooryards, and in and outof gullies in straight lineswhich best describes the tone in this passage