Immigrants In John Steinbeck's The Grape Of Wrath

The Grape of Wrath is such an excellent representation of the harsh reality many migrants went through. From what I’ve heard the novel and the film have some differences, which is to be expected, but the essence of the novel was not lost. Throughout the film, the somber feeling could be felt, specially once they left their home. The feeling skyrocketed once the Joad’s spoke with some men in a camp. It’s sort of foreshadowing, because the audience receives a taste of what might happen. The Joad family finds out that maybe the situation in California is not how the flyer depicted. The Joad’s lose two family members on their way to a better life and that’s something that many immigrants went through and are still going through to this day. An example of something similar could be the pictures that surfaced after the Syrian refugees were running away from their homeland. It was extremely heartbreaking see those pictures of a little boy face down in the water. That little boy lost his life on his way to a better life. Something that really stuck out to me, was when Ma Joad tells Tom that they couldn’t stop, that they needed to get to California and no one or anything was going to stop them, not even the death of Grandma. At first, my first impression was that they were being completely heartless by using the Grandma’s death to their advantage, …show more content…
They rose above and stayed true to themselves. Of course, Tom found himself in a horrible situation, and of course I’m not defending or excusing the murder he committed, but I think it’s safe to say that sometimes you have to do what’s best for you. He found himself in a situation where it was his life in the line. The people who surrounded him more than likely were going to kill him, so he needed to make a choice that was going to get him out of that situation. It was him against them and there was only going to be one