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Romanticism is the artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe. The strongest theme within The Grapes of Wrath that portrays romanticism is innocence and experience. In Steinbeck’s novel the main characters must migrate from their own fields of innocence in Oklahoma to the experience of highway Route 66 to California. Each character in the novel is affected differently by this ambiguity. Muley and Grandpa being the most stubborn…

John Steinbeck was born and grew up in California. He was enamored by the life and beauty that surrounded him, and his first best sellers carried strong imagery and ideas related to the environment. After the refugees from Oklahoma came pouring into California, a local news agency hired Steinbeck to interview them and learn about the circumstances that brought them their. As a result, during the 1930’s he personally met with and interviewed many of the refugees from Oklahoma. He found they were…

Between April and July 2010, approximately 4.1 million barrels of oil from the British Petroleum’s rig Deepwater Horizon leaked into the Gulf of Mexico, wreaking havoc on the environment and disrupting human life along the shore. The New York Times article “Where Gulf Spill Might Place on the Roll of Disasters” questions President Obama’s description of this tragedy as “the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced.” Instead, it proposed contenders as devastating and varied as the…

Carlson, Eric W. "Symbolism in the Grapes of Wrath." College English 19.4 (1958): 172-75. Web. The article, “Symbolism in the Grapes of Wrath”, by Eric Carlson, is a detailed journal, published in College English, which explores the impact of John Steinbeck’s plentiful inclusion of prominent naturalistic symbols in the novel, and their effects on developing the theme. His main focus is the primary symbolic structure and how it is constructed, as well as examining Rose of Sharon’s pregnancy, the…

The abolishment of the miners licence was one of the many reasons for the beginning of the Eureka Stockade. The miners licence brought grief, pain and hardship for the miners as many were unable to pay for a licence at such quick demand, and therefore almost lost their right to dig for gold and provide for any family either with them or overseas at home. The miners licence was a way for the government to tax the miners for digging on the land, if they did not find any gold and the licence…

Intercalary Chapter CDW Paragraph In The Grapes of Wrath’s chapter 9, John Steinbeck develops a tone of solemnity directed towards the preparation the farmers must apply for the trip to California. Steinbeck expresses the look of the atmosphere in order to create images of the men. The expression “hands in their pockets, hats pulled down.”(Steinbeck 87) shows that the men were not joyful toward having to lose their possessions for travel. There are no components of that sentence that connote a…

Diplomat Kofi Annan once said, “I urge you to celebrate the extraordinary courage and contributions of refugees past and present”. This famous quote, is true to its words. Throughout history, refugees of old and young have gone through tough times which led them to flee. That cause of them to flee, whether it was major or not is just another obstacle into greatness they pursued somewhere else. The book that has inspired the hearts of millions of readers about the Dust Bowl and the Great…

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…

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is a very compelling and accurate book even though it 's fiction. This book follows a family from Oklahoma during the great depression and their journey to California in search of jobs. The Joads family is affected by atmospheric condition and the dust bowl. Some of the challenges the family faces because of this are drought, death, and job loss. First of all, atmospheric conditions and the dust bowl caused death. The dust bowl was caused because of the…

This passage, written in Chapter 25, describes a change in environment of California, from vivid, bright, and lively to dark. However, it also includes the narrator’s criticism on the larger company landowners’ extreme greed, selfishness, and their excess desire to have what they do not necessarily need to obtain or things that the tenant or normal farmers could never own. The dark and ominous atmosphere was creeping over the lands of California, along with the farmers’ growing anger towards…