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Grapes Of Wrath Movie Analysis

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“The book was better than the movie.” For many book lovers when their favorite novel is adapted to the big screen, they are disappointed by the outcome. The movie is not able to captivate the audience as much as a novel might. This is generally true due to the fact that the book allows the reader to get in better touch with the characters and their adventures. In 1940, the bestselling novel The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck was adapted by Darryl Zanuck and John Ford who produced and directed the movie. The movie which mainly stuck to the plot line of the novel did differentiate a little. But even with the difference they both touched on the subject and topic of the hardships of the migration of the families to the West. In the novel Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck conveys a more powerful argument about the hardships of migration than the movie does. This is shown through the sequence of events, the development of characters, and the contrasting endings. One of the differences between the movie and the book is the order in which the events took place once the Joads reach California. The choice to change these events, changed the way in which the migration is shown. Steinbeck’s order of events reflects the hardships that the migrants had to face, while Zanuck’s order gives the audience hope. In the movie, the …show more content…

The movie is a good adaptations of the famous novel The Grapes of Wrath. Even though the movie does a great job of sticking to the plot line of the book and present the main ideas of the novel, it does not express the hardships of the migrants as well. The Joads struggle as they travel through unclear water in the novel is rearranged to reflect to hope of the Joad’s destiny.The description and connection of many of the characters are cut. And finally the memorable ending was altered to reflect hope and perseverance. The movie does not reflect the struggles of the migrants as well as the

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In the book The Grapes of Wrath, it portrays many of the experiences being lived in the Great Depression and the Dust bowl. But, it also portrays some of the many lives being lived in the modern age today. The book makes a powerful draw to many of the readers due to the fact that America was once in this position; that almost every family was in this position during the Great Depression. Even today in the modern age, most of readers have been through the struggles of trying to survive or what their family members had to do for a better life. The book gives a lot of connection and shows deep meaning that people understand the most.

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“The Grapes of Wrath” takes place during the great depression: which was a substantial economic downside in United States history. At the same time, racism continues in the United States. The Okies are very talented farmers and most of them travel along route 66 to hope for a better life, but something was waiting for them that was unexpected to these people. They did not receive any governmental supports they were ignorant, and this makes native people easier to realize Okies as an outsider also they found menial and low paying jobs. Steinbeck implies that man turns against another human for the survival of the fittest; therefore, they do not mind to put another human in a situation that is challenging to survive.

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The novel The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is based around the Joads family and many others like them in the farming community during the end of the Great Depression. Steinbeck develops his plot through intercalary chapters that elaborate on the harsh lives that many farming families lived in this time. He wrote this novel to draw attention to the horrific reality that many people in our country were subjected to in order to survive. In chapter 5, Steinbeck uses multiple rhetorical devices to depict the harshness of the owner’s decision to move the farmers off of their land.

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Grapes of Wrath Synthesis Essay Coretta Scott King, prominent civil rights activist and wife of Martin Luther King Jr., once stated, “The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members”. King argues that the real value of a community lies in how people are treated within the group rather than the communities effect on the outer world. During the Great Depression, the common experience of poverty throughout the nation brought people together to form communities that assisted each other in their aim of survival. The struggle prevalent across the working class created a culture and community that was reliant on this compassion for each other.

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Since the book came out in 1939, everyone has had a opinion on the ending to John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath. It has a very controversial ending, that Steinbeck thought would name the last nail into the coffin, so to speak, on how bad the dust bowl and moving west really was. The ending starts when the Joad family is threatened with a flood, so they make their way to a old barn where they find a boy and his old father. The boy says his father is starving, and that he can’t keep anything solid down. He needs something like soup or milk.

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In the novel written by John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, a myriad of allusions to the Bible were made by using metaphorically Biblical characters, actions, and a journey to the “promised land” in an attempt to draw the reader’s attention to the struggles of the migrant people with the allusions to the familiar text of the Bible, while Steinbeck remained true to his own beliefs. While Steinbeck had the effrontery to approach the Bible in an unconventional and possibly adverse way, he managed to come across as well versed on the matter. Although Steinbeck clearly had known the passages of the Bible, he had developed his own views on religion. As stated in The Grapes of Wrath Bloom’s Guides “Looked at in one way, these allusions seem patternless,

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“Ask any reader who has seen the movie version of a favorite novel, and the answer will usually be, "The book was better. " That 's because readers of a novel have already made their own perfect movie version” (Corliss et al., 2005). It would appear that Corliss is correct because many people who have read The Hunger Games book would say that it is better than the movie. Although the Hunger Games movie is entertaining, it is very different from the book.

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In The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, the chapters alternate between two perspectives of a story. One chapter focuses on the tenants as a whole, while the other chapter focuses specifically of a family of tenants, the Joads, and their journey to California. Chapter 5 is the former and Steinbeck does an excellent job of omniscient third person point of view to describe the situation. Chapter 5’s main idea is to set the conflict and let the readers make connections between Steinbeck’s alternating chapters with foreshadowing. Steinbeck is effectual in letting readers make connections both to the world and the text itself with the use of exposition, and symbolism.

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Realism and authenticity is very evident throughout The Grapes of Wrath. Steinbeck uses things such as real events; setting, symbolism, foreshadowing of future events that actually happened, and many other things help ascertain this sense. With the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, Steinbeck has factual statements all throughout the novel. Intercalary chapters or nonfiction chapters, are gives the novel it’s most powerful sense of realism and authenticity. “The tractors came over the roads and into the fields, great crawlers moving like insects, having the incredible strength of insects” (Steinbeck, 35).

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The trip to California was inspired by some flyers that Pa Joad received one day. The Joads heard that California was in need of a larger work force, they then began dreaming of an amazing land where they prospered together as a family. But once the Joads arrived in California they realised it is not as stunning and lucrative as advertised. By the time the Joads had arrived, the job market had deplete due to the rush of migration to California, therefore Pa Joad was unable to find a lucrative job to support his family. The Joad family bounced around poverty camps, known as hoovervilles, and fought to keep food on the table.

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In my opinion there are a lot of comparisons between the film and the book, but there are also differences between them too, but also they have impacted the audience in both the film and the

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To sum up my thoughts, Steinbeck based his fictional novel on the historical events that were occurring around him. This why the first, edition of the Grapes of Wrath sold 50,000 printed copies and it became the bestselling novel in America in 1939. As a result, by February 1940 the novel was already in its eleventh printing, and had 428,900 copies that were sold. Assuredly, this was all too due to the fact the people saw the inside of the Dust Bowl Migration and the Dust Bowl from a third person omniscient.

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