During the Great Depression droughts and other complications lead to crop failures and the inevitable migration of thousands of farmers and their families in search for new opportunities and a fresh start in California. After large corporations purchased large amounts of land in the midwest families were forced to head west. Those migrants soon learned that life in California wasn’t any better as the travelers faced oppression, social injustice, and discrimination by the large commercial farmers living in the West. American author John Steinbeck was infuriated by these social injustices and was driven to share these migrant’s stories in his novel The Grapes of Wrath. Through his novel Steinbeck was able to bring to life the story of Tom Joad
