Since John Steinbeck wrote the Grapes of Wrath people’s views and how they have taken the book have changed greatly over time. When the book was first written it was hated. California farmers were displeased with the book and said it wasn 't the truth and was just a way for Steinbeck to make a political point. They said that Steinbeck stretched the truth about work camp conditions even though he had visited them himself. Now we have come to accept what really happened and aren 't trying to hide the fact that life was terrible for the farmers and people during the Dust Bowl and Great Depression. The Grapes of Wrath is accepted all over the world and is included in many list of top 100 books you should read, and best American novels of the 20th
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People had to take whatever jobs they were offered to get by and feed their families. Farmers started to migrate to California because they had heard that there were available jobs there when really there were so many people trying to get jobs out there people weren 't really making money at all. They were only making enough money to feed themselves. The people were pretty much slaves because that was all they could do to stay alive. Steinbeck uses many analogies to describe how people were trapped and they couldn 't do much but work to stay alive. He traveled around and talked to people and witnessed how terrible life was for the people of the Dust Bowl. He saw the work camps in California and describes what they were like. He wants to describe what happened and wants people to understand what a terrible thing the Dust Bowl was. (DeMott, I) “My whole work drive has been aimed at making people understand each other…” Steinbeck wrote this in a letter in 1938. The Dust Bowl did happen and it was as bad as Steinbeck described it to be, we are now accepting what happened and are understanding what really occurred. Understanding what the Dust Bowl was and what went on during it has convinced many of that wrong doings of mankind. During the thirties when this thing was going on people just said it was bad luck or the end of the world, but we now understand that it was …show more content…
The people farming the plains before the Dust Bowl saw how much money they could make and were consumed by greed and began plowing up the earth. They didn 't stop either because they wanted to grow as much of their crops as they could. During this time though we started to go through a drought and the crops didn 't grow. There was nothing to hold the dirt in place so the dirt began to blow. The farmers of the time didn 't use dry land farming techniques to save the ground because they always wanted to have as many crops in the ground as possible. They continued to plow the ground so it never had time to settle and harden up. The wind was constantly blowing so all the loose dirt was flying away. If people weren 't so greedy they wouldn 't have continually plow the ground and would have been smart about how their farming methods. Farmers didn 't want to accept that it was mostly their fault that the Dust Bowl happened and many still don’t today. Over time they have come to accept that it was their fault so their opinions have changed
People had to take whatever jobs they were offered to get by and feed their families. Farmers started to migrate to California because they had heard that there were available jobs there when really there were so many people trying to get jobs out there people weren 't really making money at all. They were only making enough money to feed themselves. The people were pretty much slaves because that was all they could do to stay alive. Steinbeck uses many analogies to describe how people were trapped and they couldn 't do much but work to stay alive. He traveled around and talked to people and witnessed how terrible life was for the people of the Dust Bowl. He saw the work camps in California and describes what they were like. He wants to describe what happened and wants people to understand what a terrible thing the Dust Bowl was. (DeMott, I) “My whole work drive has been aimed at making people understand each other…” Steinbeck wrote this in a letter in 1938. The Dust Bowl did happen and it was as bad as Steinbeck described it to be, we are now accepting what happened and are understanding what really occurred. Understanding what the Dust Bowl was and what went on during it has convinced many of that wrong doings of mankind. During the thirties when this thing was going on people just said it was bad luck or the end of the world, but we now understand that it was …show more content…
The people farming the plains before the Dust Bowl saw how much money they could make and were consumed by greed and began plowing up the earth. They didn 't stop either because they wanted to grow as much of their crops as they could. During this time though we started to go through a drought and the crops didn 't grow. There was nothing to hold the dirt in place so the dirt began to blow. The farmers of the time didn 't use dry land farming techniques to save the ground because they always wanted to have as many crops in the ground as possible. They continued to plow the ground so it never had time to settle and harden up. The wind was constantly blowing so all the loose dirt was flying away. If people weren 't so greedy they wouldn 't have continually plow the ground and would have been smart about how their farming methods. Farmers didn 't want to accept that it was mostly their fault that the Dust Bowl happened and many still don’t today. Over time they have come to accept that it was their fault so their opinions have changed