The Grapes of Wrath
In John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath we experience the depression through a an allegorical story of a suffering family and the people they come to meet during their journey. The novels describes the author’s view on the political and social issues arising during this particular period of time.
Steinbeck has the special ability of putting a “human face” on the depression through the experiences of the Joad family. As the struggles of the Joads are identified, we can connect them to being the outcome of a tanking economy. As soon as they leave Oklahoma, tragedy strikes when grandpa Joad dies. This is a difficult time for the family because of how stubborn Grandpa was and how he had argued against not leaving Oklahoma because it’s always been his home. Similar to this circumstance, families were forced to leave their homes due to lack of jobs or the bank, even though they did not want to. After getting through this struggle, the family continues on to California, but soon after grandma …show more content…
The novel tells of how the bank's foreclosure and the Joads were tractored off their land due to this. The goal was to consolidate farming to make bigger corporations, but with this the small farmers received the biggest loss. Amid the negative, there was the positive when the author showed support for socialism. With socialism, it can control the production and distribution while remaining unified as a community, or in this sense, a nation. In the novel, we are introduced to a gentleman who runs the migrant camp. This man represents the government, who can care for the people and treat them like human beings just as the man does for the migrants. This is just another outcry for help from the author, who is trying to become a voice for the people. Another voice of socialism is Jim Casy and his disciple, young Tom Joad. At the end of the novel Tom says he’ll go wherever he is
In John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath we experience the depression through a an allegorical story of a suffering family and the people they come to meet during their journey. The novels describes the author’s view on the political and social issues arising during this particular period of time.
Steinbeck has the special ability of putting a “human face” on the depression through the experiences of the Joad family. As the struggles of the Joads are identified, we can connect them to being the outcome of a tanking economy. As soon as they leave Oklahoma, tragedy strikes when grandpa Joad dies. This is a difficult time for the family because of how stubborn Grandpa was and how he had argued against not leaving Oklahoma because it’s always been his home. Similar to this circumstance, families were forced to leave their homes due to lack of jobs or the bank, even though they did not want to. After getting through this struggle, the family continues on to California, but soon after grandma …show more content…
The novel tells of how the bank's foreclosure and the Joads were tractored off their land due to this. The goal was to consolidate farming to make bigger corporations, but with this the small farmers received the biggest loss. Amid the negative, there was the positive when the author showed support for socialism. With socialism, it can control the production and distribution while remaining unified as a community, or in this sense, a nation. In the novel, we are introduced to a gentleman who runs the migrant camp. This man represents the government, who can care for the people and treat them like human beings just as the man does for the migrants. This is just another outcry for help from the author, who is trying to become a voice for the people. Another voice of socialism is Jim Casy and his disciple, young Tom Joad. At the end of the novel Tom says he’ll go wherever he is