John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath illustrates the hardships and oppression suffered by migrant laborers during the Great Depression through Tom Joad and his family. The novel starts with Tom Joad being released from a prison and returning to his hometown. He is on his way to his family and home – the place where his farm awaits. On his way to the farm, Tom encounters Jim, a former preacher, and takes him to his house. Yet when the two arrive, his family farm is gone; everyone has been tractored
constantly progressing there were also times when the downfalls seemed permanent. As if America, The Great, would never be able to maneuver out of a bad situation. In John Steinbeck’s novel, The Grapes of Wrath he embodies the story of the 1920-1930’s in which happened to be a devastating few years for America. In the Grapes of Wrath, we have the pleasure of following the Joad family, in which Steinbeck thoroughly illustrates the families’ hardships and oppression during the Great Depression and the
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: The Viking Press, 1939. Print. The Grapes of Wrath is an extraordinary tale of a family’s internal and external struggles in the late 1930s during the Dust Bowl. When speaking about the novel, people often refer to it as “a classic” and “one of the greatest works to ever be published”. Upon thinking about which books to chose from, the Great Depression seemed like a great topic to learn more about. It was some of the country’s worst years and was rich