John Ernest Steinbeck Jr was born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas California, to the parents of Olive Hamilton and John Ernest Steinbeck. John Steinbeck married three times; he married Carol Henning In 1930, Gwyndolyn Conger 1943, and Elaine Anderson Steinbeck in 1950. John had two sons with Gwyndolyn, and he named them Thomas and John. John Steinbeck wrote a very famous book called The Grapes of Wrath. John Steinbeck’s book The Grapes of Wrath is one of his best and most popular books ever. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck’s masterpiece, is a realistic interpretation of the struggle of an Oklahoma farm family forced to move to California in order to find employment during the depression. The family’s dilemma represents that of all rural, working-class households in the Midwest and West during an age of increasing mechanization for upper-class. Steinbeck’s female characters, especially, convey his message of working-class unity. The Joads are typical 1930’s tenant farmers, forced from home because “one man on a tractor can take the place of twelve or fourteen families.”(32). Upon reading advertisements of work available in California, the Joads buy an old truck for the journey. The trip quickly kills lifelong Oklahoman Grandpa Joad,
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They then learn of their further victimization by machines. The work advertisements were mass-produced and deliberately disbursed to entice excess workers, thereby depressing wages even further and creating widespread unemployment in California. Fortunately, the family finds shelter in a government-operated, cooperative camp, where a central committee makes management decisions and tenants work and share equally. The Joads begin to realize that only by working-class unity can they hope to combat the crop owners and their police. As Ma Joad states, “If you’re in trouble or hurt or need—go to poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help—the only
They then learn of their further victimization by machines. The work advertisements were mass-produced and deliberately disbursed to entice excess workers, thereby depressing wages even further and creating widespread unemployment in California. Fortunately, the family finds shelter in a government-operated, cooperative camp, where a central committee makes management decisions and tenants work and share equally. The Joads begin to realize that only by working-class unity can they hope to combat the crop owners and their police. As Ma Joad states, “If you’re in trouble or hurt or need—go to poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help—the only