Grapes Of Wrath Book Review

Abigail Martinez
U.S. History 118
December 4, 2017
Dr. Mayer The Grape of Wrath Book Review

The American people came in the nineteen thirties when it was a tough time for the Americans and known as one of the darkest time periods in American History. This was known as one of the toughest times in the United States with the Great Depression going on, but also the Dust Bowl in the Great Plains affecting the united states. A tremendous amount of people were suffering because of the lack of resources, especially the people involved in the Dust Bowl were suffering because most of them were farmers and their was a huge drought happening. A great novel that portrays the way many of the people in the Dust Bowl had to live life

This story reveals all the difficulties and all of the suffering proceeding of many of the migrant laborers during the Great Depression and also the Dust Bowl. The novel by Steinbeck has been written to criticize many of the careless and self-interested people and overly important corporate and banking elites for trying to increase their profit policies that would ultimately force many of the farmers to suffer and go through major tribulations. Through these careless actions many of these farmers had to go through things such as starving. It is a very well written political piece, it describes the actions by the lower classes in a great way. As the Grape of Wrath begins, the Joad family is a very traditional family and the structure of the family is in which where the men make the decisions and the women do as they are told. They are invested in these roles so that they may continue to honor their Grampa and so that he may be the head of the house, but his time as the leader of the house and of the family has outlived his way of

There were many migrant families who were unwilling to pay anything less than the actual sticker price because they believe that it was like stealing to them. Many of the Okies did not want special treatment from people because of the situation many of them were in, but they rather prefer to be seen as an equal with everybody else and not seen as people in need. They were a tough group of people tougher than the folks in the cities or suburbs and they wanted to fight and never give up and the Okies were also very hard working people. The organization of the government camp also highlights this culture of self-sufficiency. Many of the Okies did not want charity they were angered by remarks if such when people would try and hand them stuff because they were people that wanted to have dignity and wanted to be respected around their peers and wanted to be seen as equal with honor. The Okies were very angry though because of the wrong doing to them by the establishment and that is what caused both Casey and Tom to rebel against these establishments because they are the ones that oppressed them and practically left them for dead. Many of the Okies did not do this for themselves but rather to change the communities in whom the live in. The Okies honorableness is meant to be a foil to the ways of life of the