John Steinbeck's, The Grapes of Wrath, is a novel about a migrant family's journey through the dust bowl in the 1930’s. Steinbeck writes particularly about the Joad family, a family that was kicked off of their farm by the rich land owners because of the dust bowl. The dust bowl made the land dry and unfarmable, forcing the Joad’s as well as many others to move east for work. Forces that are beyond people's control can forever change their lives, especially when they are held accountable for the results.
When Tom Joad was coming back to Oklahoma from jail, he was hitch hiked by a trucker. Tom had a conversation with the Trucker about where he was headed. Tom told the trucker driver he was coming back home from jail to his family’s farm, …show more content…
Frantically, the family tried their hardest to combat the downpour by digging up a levy so that the water went to a place to go besides the boxcars, since the creek was quickly filling with water. After all of the men’s hard work trying to fight the uncontrollable force of rain, a tree breaks the levy and water comes flooding in. “The water piled up against the tree. And then the bank washed down quickly, washed around ankles, around the knees. The men broke and ran, and the current worked smoothly into the flat, under the cars, under the automobiles”, at this moment, the Joads realized that the force of the downpour was out of their control no matter how hard they tried to stop it(Steinbeck 442). Downpouring of the rain causes the Joads to suffer the consequences when the water reached their boxcar. The rain also caused their cars to stop running, “The engine turned over and over, and there was no bark of the motor” (Steinbeck 443). This forced the Joads to move from that camp, changing their current living situation in the boxcar. They tried, but they couldn’t change the weather, yet again suffering the consequences of the rain, damaging their
When Tom Joad was coming back to Oklahoma from jail, he was hitch hiked by a trucker. Tom had a conversation with the Trucker about where he was headed. Tom told the trucker driver he was coming back home from jail to his family’s farm, …show more content…
Frantically, the family tried their hardest to combat the downpour by digging up a levy so that the water went to a place to go besides the boxcars, since the creek was quickly filling with water. After all of the men’s hard work trying to fight the uncontrollable force of rain, a tree breaks the levy and water comes flooding in. “The water piled up against the tree. And then the bank washed down quickly, washed around ankles, around the knees. The men broke and ran, and the current worked smoothly into the flat, under the cars, under the automobiles”, at this moment, the Joads realized that the force of the downpour was out of their control no matter how hard they tried to stop it(Steinbeck 442). Downpouring of the rain causes the Joads to suffer the consequences when the water reached their boxcar. The rain also caused their cars to stop running, “The engine turned over and over, and there was no bark of the motor” (Steinbeck 443). This forced the Joads to move from that camp, changing their current living situation in the boxcar. They tried, but they couldn’t change the weather, yet again suffering the consequences of the rain, damaging their