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 events that
John Steinbeck takes us back to 1939 on a journey in his novel, The Grapes of Wrath, where he illustrates a realistic but fictional story about the Joad family who must overcome several hardships and challenges while searching for a better and healthier lifestyle. Like the Joads, Jeannette Walls exemplifies her life story in The Glass Castle where she shares how growing up in different places and the troubles her family faced had pushed her to eventually leave. Both the Joads and the Walls family
headed for California would load as many of their belongings that would fit on a truck, and they traveled west on Route 66. Others moved to Florida where, like California, the agriculture was less affected by all of the storms and the drought. However, California was not very pleased with the thousands of newcomers that came to settle in the state because with the Great Depression going on, more people coming to the state would take up the little jobs available. With this in mind, California passed