Grapes of Wrath Essay The Grapes of Wrath is a story of the Joad family during the Dust bowl, and about their journey to California in search of work. Throughout the book, you see how the characters treat one another in hard times, and how it effects them. Dehumanization and brutality plays a huge part throughout the story and it shapes the way the characters act, feel, and say.…
Chapter 20 (pgs 327-384) This chapter focuses back on the Joads and their first few days in California. Their extremely limited funds don’t allow a proper ceremony and burial, the family leave Grandma's body at the door of the coroner’s office. The family makes their way to Hooverville, a large camp full of gaunt eyes and hollow stomachs. Along the way they meet Floyd Knowles, he explained the rough life here and if you were thinking about just walking on in a getting work then you're delusional.…
7-12-15 Chapter 9 Huck and Jim went exploring. Jim helped Huck hide his canoe and set traps in it. They set all their things for the raining weather that was about to come. They then built a fire and made dinner. They went into a cavern, and saw that there was a giant storm outside; the trees were flying everywhere and the wind was carrying everything with its might.…
One of the many major scens of the book is when Eli’s father flashes back and tells the story of how the compound was built and kept secret he first stated how the workers had to walk miles and miles to a buss station where they would be blindfolded and bussed to the compound. He said it would be hard to find due to everything looking the same. In another conversation Eli dosen’t want to listen to his dad when he thinks they should start cloning humans. He said his sister lexie was on board and waiting for, him…
Once again, Abraham lies in an alien land and uses Sarah to safeguard his life. Similar to the fate of the Pharaoh, the deity threatens King Abimelech’s life because of Abraham’s deceit. However, this time, the deity states that Abraham is a prophet and informs the king that Abraham has the power to pray for him and save his life. King Abimelech gives Abraham sheep, oxen, and male and female slaves just as the Pharaoh had done in Egypt. Thus, from one narrative to the next, as Abraham journeys through alien lands, he gains not only material resources, including livestock and slaves, which improves his social-economic status, but he also receives land and silver (20:16) and increased socio-religious status and power through his covenant with the Lord and the Lord’s conference of the position “prophet” upon him.…
In the opening chapter of one through eleven of “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbach, tells of the Dust Bowl drought that swept through Oklahoma and how it affected the homes and livelihood of the sharecroppers (Steinbach 2-4). Tom Joad, in chapter two, finds himself riding with a truck driver after having served four years in prison at a place called McAlester. He had been locked up after being in a drunken brawl and killing a man (Steinbach 4-12). Chapter three tell of a turtle crossing the highway and how a truck driver tried to intentionally run the turtle over and barely missed crushing the turtle. The turtle was finally able to make it across after much struggling (Steinbach 14-16).…
The term “alienation” describes the event where an individual is excluded from a certain group or activity but should have rights to participation; one character in The Grapes of Wrath who faced alienation is Al Joad. In the novel, Al is described as a teenage boy who loves women and cars. Al, similar to the rest of the family, becomes classified as an Okie; according to the Californian landowners, Okies lack talent and drive. Al aspires to work in a garage to repair cars; consequently, his past living experiences impact his opportunity to do so. Those familiar with California prove judgmental in regards to the Okies.…
The Grapes of Wrath is a novel about the Joad family living in the Oklahoma Dust Bowl during the era of the Great Depression. They were driven off their land and decided to travel to California in search of jobs, land, and a better future. However, California was not what they expected it to be. Throughout the novel, there were many struggles for the Joads but Ma Joad was the most resilient and strongest character in the story.…
In hard times many people feel they are being wronged whether it’s about their race, gender, or employment. This often leads to a unification of like minded individuals looking to change the things they feel are unsuitable for others and their own life. A leader of social justice who fought for the rights of the people was young mother, Ella May Wiggins. She died standing strong in her beliefs on the rights of workers and the standards at which their jobs should be held. She is not unlike the Grapes of Wrath of character Jim Casey who shared her beliefs on the people's right to fairness.…
The heart is the symbolic vessel of emotion. Heart trouble indicates emotional burdens. Could represent loneliness, cruelty, disloyalty, suffering, bad love.. Illness is a reflection of some emotional/psychological weakness.…
In Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath Tom Joad represents his philosophical beliefs making him the protagonist and main character of this piece of literature. Tom displays the most transformation. Joad takes on an “education of the heart.” Through this experience Jim Casy takes Tom on a moral journey teaching him the importance of community. Instead of Tom thinking of himself as an “I” he transforms into a “we” mentality.…
Comparing people to an event or object makes it easy to comprehend the ways those people think, react, and feel. In The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, it can be difficult to see the exact perspective of each character unless it is compared with subjects the reader understands. Rose of Sharon’s innocence and fear can easily be explained through comparison. In addition, indicating that her experiences are equivalent to something else makes it easier to make sense of her decisions. Rose of Sharon is like a baby bird learning to live on its own.…
Furthermore, the topic of ‘planning and budgeting’ can be compared to the story of Moses and the Second Census of Israel in The Book of Numbers, Chapter 26:1-7. The story states that “the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saying, Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers’ house, all that are able to go to war in Israel…and they that were numbered were forty and three thousand and seven hundred and thirty” (2009, pp. 256-257). Both the story and topic involve the aspect of a higher power providing a goal for their subordinates, in a manner of speaking, to achieve. Ultimately, the outcome is dependent on how the subordinates would…
The change from the Pharaoh’s daughter finding the baby to the Pharaoh’s wife plays an important part of the story line. This makes Ramses Moses’ brother, as well as a rival. Whereas in the biblical story, Ramses was Moses’ uncle.…
In DreamWorks’ 1998 animated film, The Prince of Egypt, viewers are introduced to Moses, a young man filled with life, vibrancy, and mischief. His life was preordained by God to lead his people - the Israelites - out of captivity and into the Promised Land. This modern Midrash not only revitalizes the story of Moses, but changes its original purpose. By comparing and contrasting the DreamWorks version of Moses’ youth and exit from Egypt to Midian to that of the biblical story and scholarly commentary, it is revealed that the purpose of The Prince of Egypt is to emphasize social change and justice.…