Globally, millions of impoverished families struggle with survival. Measly finances create some of the difficulties in life. Historically, immigrant workers of the early 1900’s suffered from meager finances. Unfortunately, many Americans had no awareness of the disturbing struggles that immigrant workers endured. The Grapes of Wrath and The Jungle revealed poor laborers’ treacherous living condition to oblivious Americans. Both John Steinbeck and Upton Sinclair, authors of The Grapes of Wrath and The Jungle, exploited the dehumanization and poor living conditions of impoverished Americans through the utilization of disturbing imagery, extended metaphors, and distressing details.
To commence, John Steinbeck, author of The Grapes …show more content…
Explicating Steinbeck’s plot, he portrayed American immigrant workers to powerless slaves serving the bank, which Steinbeck metaphorically compared to a monster. “ These last would take no responsibility for the banks or the companies because they were men and slaves, while the banks were machines and masters all at the same time” (Steinbeck 43). Through the previous quote, author Steinbeck revealed to readers that tenant owners were under absolute control of the bank, were forced to pay wages towards it to fight inevitable eviction, and could do nothing against it, for the immigrant were dehumanized to slaves from their life conditions. Another situation where American laborers disturbing life conditions were revealed was through the tractor driver that evicted the tenant workers in the expository chapter five. “The man sitting in the iron did not look like a man; gloved, goggle, rubber dust mask over nose and mouth, he was part of the monster, a robot in the seat” (Steinbeck 48). Shockingly, when the tractor driver goes to evict the tenant workers, they know him as Joe Davis’s boy. When the tractor drivers pleaded with the tractor driver not to evict them, he explained that he was just doing what he needs to do in order to stay alive, even if it meant bringing others down in the effort. This disturbing metaphor included in the plot revealed to readers that the bank-and other affluent company owners- dominate the poor, and the impoverished have to attempt everything that they can to survive, even if it means hurting friends or
To commence, John Steinbeck, author of The Grapes …show more content…
Explicating Steinbeck’s plot, he portrayed American immigrant workers to powerless slaves serving the bank, which Steinbeck metaphorically compared to a monster. “ These last would take no responsibility for the banks or the companies because they were men and slaves, while the banks were machines and masters all at the same time” (Steinbeck 43). Through the previous quote, author Steinbeck revealed to readers that tenant owners were under absolute control of the bank, were forced to pay wages towards it to fight inevitable eviction, and could do nothing against it, for the immigrant were dehumanized to slaves from their life conditions. Another situation where American laborers disturbing life conditions were revealed was through the tractor driver that evicted the tenant workers in the expository chapter five. “The man sitting in the iron did not look like a man; gloved, goggle, rubber dust mask over nose and mouth, he was part of the monster, a robot in the seat” (Steinbeck 48). Shockingly, when the tractor driver goes to evict the tenant workers, they know him as Joe Davis’s boy. When the tractor drivers pleaded with the tractor driver not to evict them, he explained that he was just doing what he needs to do in order to stay alive, even if it meant bringing others down in the effort. This disturbing metaphor included in the plot revealed to readers that the bank-and other affluent company owners- dominate the poor, and the impoverished have to attempt everything that they can to survive, even if it means hurting friends or