Grape

The day began to die, and the men started the long walk to their death. Geb led the two men to the gallows on the mountains overlooking Sentinel Point, unaware if he was dreaming or awake. As the chief executioner to Lord McRoss it was his duty to carry out the sentences passed by Lord McRoss, however cruel they might seem. However, his mind had been playing tricks on him lately; but he was quite sure he was awake right now. Both the guards were young, probably having just completed their…

Throughout this novel, James is being questioned by his parents on his sexuality. His parents are relating his antisocial behaviour with James being uncertain of his sexuality, early in the novel, his father equates James’ choice of ordering pasta for lunch to a lack of masculinity. He claims that steak is something a man would order while pasta is something “faggy.” He says, “It's just that we've never talked about your sexuality, and if you are gay, I want to be properly supportive.” (31).…

and most choose to accept that. However, when people are dying because they do not posses the basic needs, the acceptable inequality turns into injustice. People acknowledge this injustice, but few will act in order to fix the problem. In the story Grapes of Wrath this type of injustice begins with people's naive decisions to move to California, which feed into the plans of the wealthy. When the people arrived their hopes of a better life were crushed and replaced with a struggle to survive, and…

Ralph pulled out on to the beach, wondering if he would get rescued soon. He prayed to god that someone or something comes to take him back home, where he is comfortable. He looked and all he saw was the blue water and the light blue sky merging at the horizon. The savage troop of Jake rushed toward him, Ralph did not try to run, he knew no matter how much he ran, his fate would take him to the death. Jake manhandled Ralph and gave a nasty grin that told the whole story of what…

The Grim Researcher Humans battle the ideal of death everyday. Warriors want to do it in war, and others just want to have it be a peaceful, painless experience. What excuses, questions, or reasons does one use to find their rightful place in death? How do they make it good for their maker so they will find the best eternal rest there is when they go? The following is a story of a one person's psychological battle of good and evil, so he will know he has done his best, to find his own heaven.…

THE RAINES LAW ROOM, 1:30 AM. There is a light rain settling upon the city, Sebastien is absent. “Love’s an idea, not a feeling. Don’t be so foolish, Ralph.” A drunk and miserable Corinthian spouts, a glass sitting loosely in her right and a cigarette clutched tight between her left hand fingers. “We feel some sort of fictitious… admiration, whereas our mind translates this into some over idealized bullshit…” She pauses. “I-I don’t know where I was going with this.” Ralph sighs, shaking his…

According to John Steinbeck, the author of The Grapes of Wrath and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, “Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.” People often choose to ignore what they know so that they can continue acting in a way that they know is bad idea. Despite the fact that they are aware of their malicious actions, they choose to ignore the truth of their situation in order to act in a way that is convenient or profitable for them. In…

“popular” or known cause of people migrating is for a better life; people think that just by moving somewhere else all the problems will be solved, and that is a reason of why there is still a lot of migration in America and the world. In the book, The Grapes of Wrath, the Joad family needed to move from Oklahoma to California, and it was all because of the crisis they were living in. “The Great Depression”, one of the longest and most severe depressions that the United States has ever faced,…

necessity to ban novels that are a supposed "danger" to adolescents, resulting in the limiting of critical thinking. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is a novel full of controversial topics such as violence, consequently causing the question to arise as to if this literary work should be read in the classroom. Although the novel contains frequent acts of violence, The Grapes of Wrath should be included in all high school curriculum because it promotes much needed awareness of violence.…

political, religious, or moral reasons is all specific to the book itself. Yet, these are the most common reasons as to why a book is banned because their pages discuss these topics in an abrasive way or stray away from public opinion (Book Banning). The Grapes of Wrath, a classic American novel published in 1939, was banned within the same year, specifically in places like Kern County California where the story hit a little too close to home. Since the book depicted a family’s struggles in…