The human race has been blessed with a beautiful environment to live in. However as time has past most people have lost sight of the fact that the earth is an amazing gift. We go through our lives never taking the time to truly appreciate the perfect environment we inhabit. Humans pollute, destroy and for some reason have tried to dominate the earth instead of simply enjoying it. Every couple of months we find ourselves absolutely shocked when a natural disaster leaves millions of people devastated. Reality is that the human race is just a guest on this earth. People foolishly let themselves get comfortable in a world that has the potential to unleash an incomparable wrath. In the 1930’s the inhabitants of the southern portion of the Great
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In the article, Human Adaptation to Climate Change: A Review of Three Historical Cases and Some General Perspectives, by Ben Orlove, he explains that “the drought was most severe in” the “western” portion of Oklahoma. Western Oklahoma, or the panhandle, would have been the part of the state that experienced the “dust storms” (Orlove) described in the novel but not Sallisaw. The Joads who really lived in Sallisaw would not have experienced the dust storms portrayed in the novel, however they would have experienced a severe drought. The inaccuracy in the location affected by the dust storm is the first, and a minimal, inaccuracy we see in the novel but many other aspects of the journey that the migrant families went on were also distorted.
Within The Grapes of Wrath, the Joads were personally victimized by the bank when their land was taken from them. This distortion of what really happened at the time made it is easy to understand that it was the little guys against the big banks and corporations. In the novel the banks and major corporations are depicted as “machines” and “monsters” (pg 21) but ultimately they had little power when it came to altering the economic distress
In the article, Human Adaptation to Climate Change: A Review of Three Historical Cases and Some General Perspectives, by Ben Orlove, he explains that “the drought was most severe in” the “western” portion of Oklahoma. Western Oklahoma, or the panhandle, would have been the part of the state that experienced the “dust storms” (Orlove) described in the novel but not Sallisaw. The Joads who really lived in Sallisaw would not have experienced the dust storms portrayed in the novel, however they would have experienced a severe drought. The inaccuracy in the location affected by the dust storm is the first, and a minimal, inaccuracy we see in the novel but many other aspects of the journey that the migrant families went on were also distorted.
Within The Grapes of Wrath, the Joads were personally victimized by the bank when their land was taken from them. This distortion of what really happened at the time made it is easy to understand that it was the little guys against the big banks and corporations. In the novel the banks and major corporations are depicted as “machines” and “monsters” (pg 21) but ultimately they had little power when it came to altering the economic distress