Women today are still in this transition amongst gender roles. Woman today are still fighting to break the bold of the nuclear positions they have been placed in for hundreds of years. Women are fighting for equal positions in the workforce and equal pay for the work that they do. The shift in the roles of the Joad family is very much representative of the shift that is still occurring today.
The all-encompassing concept that is present throughout all that has been discussed is the notion of social injustice. Social injustice can be defined as, “a situation when some unfair practices are being carried in the society. Whatever unjust is happening is usually against the law and it might not be considered a moral practice.” Through this, people often lose or are denied their personal identity. Grandpa, in the story held his
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The story follows the fictional Joad family as they make the voyage from their farm they have been kicked off of, to the land of California. Despite being fictional characters, they are representative of the thousands of real-world families that made the voyage and faced similar if not identical hardships. Though the events described occurred some 80 years prior to date, many of the social pieces that occurred are still happening in our country today. Man’s inhumanity to man is still prevalent in many ways, such as our views on social justice, police, and more. There are so many connections that can be made across the time frames that have been discussed and yet more still. To end this paper, I quote not a line form the text itself, but the final line from the movie based from the book. This line I feel embodies a message readers of “Grapes of Wrath” should carry with them. “Rich people go and come and die out but we keep going, we are the people that live, will go on forever because we are the