To Read Or Not To Read
“I 'm jus ' pain covered with skin.”. “The Grapes of Wrath” is a novel that most people have to read at least once in their life, but you shouldn’t be forced to read it. Contrary to popular belief, Steinbeck 's, “The Grapes of Wrath” is a novel that should not be read due to its historical inaccuracy and the major lack of a story line.
The novel, “The Grapes of Wrath” is not very accurate, especially when it comes to the “Okies”. The “Okies” in the novel are depicted as people who can’t afford anything, dirty, ruining the country and coming from farming towns and rural areas. “Them goddamn Okies got no sense and no feeling. They ain 't human” (Chapter 18). In reality the “Okies” weren 't as bad as they were depicted …show more content…
The Joads are from Sallisaw, in the far eastern part of Oklahoma, and the Dust Bowl was in the western part. “Every moving thing lifted the dust into the air.” (Page 1). The road that the Joad family had taken was route 66, “Highway 66 is the main migrant road. 66—the long concrete path across the country, waving gently up and down on the map, from the Mississippi to Bakersfield” (Chapter 12), and in the book, it seems as if the family took weeks to get to California when really the family could have gotten there within a few days. Route 66 was one of the most advanced roads at the time so the Joad family could have arrived in California sooner than the book makes them. So with those inaccuracies it makes the book even less enjoyable to read.
Hoovervilles are defined as a shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s. They may not have been a pretty little white house with fancy lights and AC but they definitely weren’t as bad as Steinbeck made them out to be. Some people even found a better standard of living in the Hoovervilles than what they had back at their homes. When WWII started a lot of people even went into industrial work and other jobs besides farming. By the time the war was over the “Okies” were no longer “Okies” they were the lower- middle class and the …show more content…
The “Story Mountain” is not met at all. There is a lot of introduction, but no raising action, no main climax, and no falling action, but there was some form of a resolution. The introduction is all over the book, and the resolution was be when Tom runs away. There are smaller “story mountains” throughout the book, but there is not main one. One smaller “story mountain’ would be Casy, we meet him, he changes through the story, then gets arrested, then gets killed, then our main character, Tom, moves on from it. There are plenty more of them, but one thing that is most important to notice is the there is no main story line. Then the end of the book has a seriously messed up ending and also has nothing else to do with the rest of the book. So with no storyline, it makes the book even more difficult to read and even worse of a
“I 'm jus ' pain covered with skin.”. “The Grapes of Wrath” is a novel that most people have to read at least once in their life, but you shouldn’t be forced to read it. Contrary to popular belief, Steinbeck 's, “The Grapes of Wrath” is a novel that should not be read due to its historical inaccuracy and the major lack of a story line.
The novel, “The Grapes of Wrath” is not very accurate, especially when it comes to the “Okies”. The “Okies” in the novel are depicted as people who can’t afford anything, dirty, ruining the country and coming from farming towns and rural areas. “Them goddamn Okies got no sense and no feeling. They ain 't human” (Chapter 18). In reality the “Okies” weren 't as bad as they were depicted …show more content…
The Joads are from Sallisaw, in the far eastern part of Oklahoma, and the Dust Bowl was in the western part. “Every moving thing lifted the dust into the air.” (Page 1). The road that the Joad family had taken was route 66, “Highway 66 is the main migrant road. 66—the long concrete path across the country, waving gently up and down on the map, from the Mississippi to Bakersfield” (Chapter 12), and in the book, it seems as if the family took weeks to get to California when really the family could have gotten there within a few days. Route 66 was one of the most advanced roads at the time so the Joad family could have arrived in California sooner than the book makes them. So with those inaccuracies it makes the book even less enjoyable to read.
Hoovervilles are defined as a shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s. They may not have been a pretty little white house with fancy lights and AC but they definitely weren’t as bad as Steinbeck made them out to be. Some people even found a better standard of living in the Hoovervilles than what they had back at their homes. When WWII started a lot of people even went into industrial work and other jobs besides farming. By the time the war was over the “Okies” were no longer “Okies” they were the lower- middle class and the …show more content…
The “Story Mountain” is not met at all. There is a lot of introduction, but no raising action, no main climax, and no falling action, but there was some form of a resolution. The introduction is all over the book, and the resolution was be when Tom runs away. There are smaller “story mountains” throughout the book, but there is not main one. One smaller “story mountain’ would be Casy, we meet him, he changes through the story, then gets arrested, then gets killed, then our main character, Tom, moves on from it. There are plenty more of them, but one thing that is most important to notice is the there is no main story line. Then the end of the book has a seriously messed up ending and also has nothing else to do with the rest of the book. So with no storyline, it makes the book even more difficult to read and even worse of a