Steinbeck 's Stories
According to Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary a novel is, “an invented prose narrative that is usually long and complex and deals especially with human experience through a usually connected sequence of events” (809). Novels are a time machine into the past that brings you into a whole new world. In this world you meet new people and live a whole new life. John Steinbeck illustrates the true struggle to sustain life and the meaning of family in the nineteen-thirties in his novel The Grapes of Wrath. With this novel people can truly understand what their grandparents had to go through just to survive from day to day. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is a outstanding novel created with wonderful characterization, …show more content…
Characterization is the way that characters are revealed and developed: speech, dress, manner, actions. There are two different types of characterization: direct and indirect. One example of indirect characterization in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is when the family first gets back together and grandma wants a grace said at the table. “‘Come on in an’ eat,’ said Tom. ‘Grandma wants grace’ “ (80). The family never directly says that grandma is very religious in the story, but by describing what she likes we induce that she is religious. An example of direct characterization is John Steinbeck’s description of a man. “The man was dressed in gray wool trousers and a blue shirt, dark blue with sweat on the back and under the arms” (159). This is direct characterization because John Steinbeck tells the readers exactly how the man looks. The reader does not have to do any further thinking to figure out what the man looks like. Indeed, John Steinbeck 's The Grapes of Wrath has creative …show more content…
Imagery is language that appeals to one of the senses. In The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck has to be able to describe how awful and dirty The Great Depression was. The Great Depression pushed migrants onto the roads where they had dust and dirt around them at all times. People would go weeks without ever bathing themselves. One example of how dirt was is at the beginning of the novel when John Steinbeck describes The Dust Bowl. “When the night came again it was black night, for the stars could not pierce the dust to get down, and the window lights could not even spread beyond their own yards” (3). To start the novel Steinbeck created a dirty sight in the reader 's mind. Another one of Steinbeck’s example happens towards the end of the book when the farms have to throw out the crops just to keep the prices down. “The works of the roots, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the prices, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be” (348-349). This quote illustrates the farmers throwing out food and it floating down the stream. One can picture the fruits flowing down the river and starving people trying to get a meal. While all the people around the country are starving and looking for food the farmers have to burn their crops. Thus, imagery is
According to Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary a novel is, “an invented prose narrative that is usually long and complex and deals especially with human experience through a usually connected sequence of events” (809). Novels are a time machine into the past that brings you into a whole new world. In this world you meet new people and live a whole new life. John Steinbeck illustrates the true struggle to sustain life and the meaning of family in the nineteen-thirties in his novel The Grapes of Wrath. With this novel people can truly understand what their grandparents had to go through just to survive from day to day. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is a outstanding novel created with wonderful characterization, …show more content…
Characterization is the way that characters are revealed and developed: speech, dress, manner, actions. There are two different types of characterization: direct and indirect. One example of indirect characterization in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is when the family first gets back together and grandma wants a grace said at the table. “‘Come on in an’ eat,’ said Tom. ‘Grandma wants grace’ “ (80). The family never directly says that grandma is very religious in the story, but by describing what she likes we induce that she is religious. An example of direct characterization is John Steinbeck’s description of a man. “The man was dressed in gray wool trousers and a blue shirt, dark blue with sweat on the back and under the arms” (159). This is direct characterization because John Steinbeck tells the readers exactly how the man looks. The reader does not have to do any further thinking to figure out what the man looks like. Indeed, John Steinbeck 's The Grapes of Wrath has creative …show more content…
Imagery is language that appeals to one of the senses. In The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck has to be able to describe how awful and dirty The Great Depression was. The Great Depression pushed migrants onto the roads where they had dust and dirt around them at all times. People would go weeks without ever bathing themselves. One example of how dirt was is at the beginning of the novel when John Steinbeck describes The Dust Bowl. “When the night came again it was black night, for the stars could not pierce the dust to get down, and the window lights could not even spread beyond their own yards” (3). To start the novel Steinbeck created a dirty sight in the reader 's mind. Another one of Steinbeck’s example happens towards the end of the book when the farms have to throw out the crops just to keep the prices down. “The works of the roots, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the prices, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be” (348-349). This quote illustrates the farmers throwing out food and it floating down the stream. One can picture the fruits flowing down the river and starving people trying to get a meal. While all the people around the country are starving and looking for food the farmers have to burn their crops. Thus, imagery is