Conflict In John Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath

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The author of the book The Grapes of Wrath is John Steinbeck and he was born in Salinas, California, on February 27, 1902. Also, as his life would go on he would start to write books in the year of 1929. Some of his work got a little of success such like the book Tortilla Flat that had been published in 1935 that somehow, someway skyrocketed his great ability to write books in the following years. In addition not only was it only written and launched it to an actual movie that came out in 1940, which reflected upon the author John Steinbeck’s actual life as he was growing up. This book The Grapes of Wrath takes place during the Dust Bowl, which happened in the 1930s and opening on Oklahoma’s countryside where the sun is severe and all crops …show more content…
Then, one of the other moments continues with Tom getting released from the prison in which he spent years in misery for killing a man. Now that I explained the inciting moment this is the main conflict. Now the main conflict in this book is the drought in the Joads home town that forced the farmers and them to move to the state of California all the way from Oklahoma. Additionally, his story is to make us as readers believe that any type of conflict between the desire to answer to needs and also the adversity by fixing a person necessities and the impulse to risk one’s well-being by doing a good deed for someone which is mainly the way he fixed it. To be honest I can relate to Pa Joad, although each character in the story had to overcome a stage. Pa Joad stood out to me in this book the most cause of the adversity he had to overcome by helping his family. Meaning that he took over that difficulty of moving his family from Oklahoma to California which is not that far away but still wanted his family to have a better life. He also was a really hard working man as explained in the book. Last but not least, he did a really did great job of maintaining his spot as head of the family by protecting them, kind of like what Tom did after getting released from

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