Running head: THE GRAPES OF WRATH
Analysis of the Film: The Grapes of Wrath
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THE GRAPES OF WRATH 2 Analysis of the Film: The Grapes of Wrath
John Ford directed the film’The Grapes of Wrath based on the book by John Steinback that has the same title. The film features the poverty that swept across America during the Great Depression of the 1930s. We see Oklahoma where clouds of dust are sweeping across the lands nearly choking its inhabitants (The Grapes of Wrath, 1940). That reflects the adverse climatic condition that America was experiencing at the time whereby dust storms were prevalent in the Southwest regions. The farmers are devastated by the sight of their dying crops. They wonder how their families would survive as
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He believed in voluntarism and spearheaded other policies that worsened the economy. The policies ended up becoming a total failure as one thousand three hundred towns became bankrupt while unemployment skyrocketed and became uncontrollable. Moreover, teachers pay was canceled as the government could not afford to pay them. Even worse, the decision to increase the taxation on the rich to cover the economic deficit worsened the situation as investments became fewer. Production was slowed, and unemployment increased markedly. Adoption of the Hawley-Smoot Act reduced demand for American exports and exacerbated the depression.
As we see in the film, Tom Joad arrives from prison; he finds out that there is no one where he lived. Mulley and Casy tell him that his family had moved to Uncle John’s to gather enough money to go to California. They also explained that the bank and landowners drove them out of the land and demolished their property particularly farmhouses when they discovered that
THE GRAPES OF WRATH 3 it was unprofitable to have the farmers in their lands. Mulley, Casy, and Tom eat a rabbit