“The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck
The novel “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck is about an Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, who are forced to travel west to California in hope for a better future. Where they face the harsh reality of America. The setting of the novel is during the Dust Bowl migration of 1930s. American writer John Steinbeck wrote this book, so his readers can experience and understand the life during the Dust Bowl migrants and can understand each other. Two lessons that can be pulled from this novel are “Highway 66” in chapter twelve and “the turtle” in chapter three. “The Grapes of Wrath” teaches the reader that to get to the goal they are after they will have to fight for it no matter how hard it is.
At the beginning of the novel, the Joads were on a transport truck and as they were riding in the truck on the highway there was this turtle who was trying to make its
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Growing up I always knew that life isn’t fair, but that never was a reason to give up. There are setbacks and certain events in a person’s life that changes them and that is okay, but I look up to people who have been through hell and back and are still themselves and that’s what John Steinbeck showed me through his novel. Sometimes growing up I thought I had it rough, but lately I understand that I’m still living better than others and should be grateful for that. John Steinbeck showed his readers that there are people in worst situations than others and always find a way to overcome it and they never loose hope then why is it different for anyone else? And I thought about that and I understood that people only focus on themselves and that impacts them only they never try to put themselves in other people’s shoes and see how hard things are for them and how they deal with them. After realizing this my thoughts on this expanded even