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die there. The farms held treasured moments of success as well as failure. The Joad family were distraught and at a loss as to what to do after the diminishing areas were taken from them by the government. Gender roles were a huge part of the novel “Grapes of Wrath”. This novel illustrated how women can have more power and strength in times of catastrophic…

Everyday, people are faced with tough circumstances and even tougher decisions that must be made. In John Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath”, devastation and poverty brought about by the Dust Bowl of the 1930’s forces people to make a very tough, dicey decision- stay on their homeland, where life is nearly impossible but familiar, or move West to California, where there are supposedly more jobs and better land. Steinbeck chooses to narrate this American journey by alternating the focus of…

see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man's general destiny” (Lascelles Abercrombie). Symbolism is the use of an idea or object to represent a different idea. John Steinbeck employs the use of symbolism in his book, “The Grapes of Wrath” in many different ways, through the old turtle featured in chapter 3, a character in the novel, Jim Casy, the dog getting run over by the car, and Rose of Sharon’s pregnancy. One of the first symbols Steinbeck employs is in an…

Perpetuating on through to chapter twelve depicts the movement of the migrants on Highway 66 as they traveled westwards to California (Steinbeck 117-122). In Chapter thirteen, the Joads are visually perceived traveling on Route 66 and spending the first night of their journey. Along the way, Grampa dies of a stroke and is buried by the roadside. Tom and Al repair the Wilson's car, and the two families decide to continue their travels together (Steinbeck 123-149). Chapter fourteen outlines the…

As J.K. Rowling once said, “We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.” In Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, the Joads utilize their collective skills as a family to neutralize the crippling discrimination and societal issues they face. Each member specifically donates effort to the journey to California and learns from what their predecessor teaches them, exemplifying how the unity of the family positively affects future generations. The roles that they play in their…

Correlation between the Okies and Mexican Immigrants The novel The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, tells the story of a family journeying to California with the goal of starting a new life. On the way, they experience turmoil and hardships. This novel takes place in the 1930’s, the same time the great depression and the dust bowl were occurring. These two events affected the United States dramatically, and aspects of this can be seen throughout the novel. Steinbeck added what seemed like…

The novel The Grapes of Wrath takes place in the early 1930s when events such as the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression occurred. These tragedies dramatically affected the characters of the novel. The Grapes of Wrath was written by John Steinbeck in a time where employment rates were lower than ever, people were kicked off their land and assured a better life in “the promise land” (William). The events that took place in the 1930s kept the characters from living their normal lives and forced…

The Grapes of Wrath is a book that was written by John Steinbeck and was later turned into a movie. The storyline of The Grapes of Wrath follows a family during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. The name of the family that Steinbeck chooses to follow through this novel is the Joad family . The novel, as well as the movie, tells the story of how this family lost the land that they had been sharecroppers on for years and decides to follow the migration going to the west, and to travel to…

inequality no matter what race or gender. Manifested in the past, in literature, and in the present, immigration was and still is prevalent in society today. The Dust Bowl, prejudice against migrants in John Steinbeck’s American classic novel, The Grapes of Wrath, and efforts to deport immigrants made by Donald Trump truly capture some of the difficulties that immigrants…

The Grapes of Wrath, written by John Steinbeck, depicts the adventure of Tom Joad on finding his true identity as a tenant farmer during the Great Depression. Steinbeck alternates the actual story and the intercalary chapters in order to give the background information on about what was going to happen in the real story, but also to imply his meaning of writing the book. Especially in Chapter 17, the passage explains the growing number of settlers on the side road of the highway. On the…