"A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation." This remarkably truthful quote obtained from Adlai E. Stevenson is the epitome of the answer to the question of how The Grapes of Wrath is a novel of social protest (Adlai). On the surface, the novel, written by John Steinbeck, seems like an amazing doctrine of the struggles and emotions of mankind. However, after further research and contemplations, the novel is only a bias piece of work dictating only one story of how the Great Depression of the 1930's were truly like. In his novel, John Steinbeck demeans major corporations, big farmers, and Californians for causing migrant's suffering and decline of life stability. Although this did add to the discomfort the migrants were in at that time, the nation as a whole and the migrants themselves were to blame for their own fates. In the process of making the migrants seem like the only victims during the Great Depression, Steinbeck failed to mention who the true victims were. During this time period, the true sufferers of the depression were immigrants, women, African Americans, native Americans and Asian Americans. Failing to mention these races and classes of people in the novel clearly shows Steinbecks will to preach about human rights but only in the areas where it will further progress the belief of manifest destiny for Anglo-Saxons. Furthermore, by making only the corporations themselves out to be the monsters and not the people who ran or developed them, he is taking the blame off himself and the rest of the Anglo-Saxon race and placing it on a machine people can rebel against in the process of making themselves out to be the hero and savior of "all human rights" in America. The Grapes of Wrath is not a novel of social protest, but merely a hypocritical novel of propaganda and false
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