Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath is a film based on events, which occurred during the Great Depression. The film mainly focuses on the Joads family, one of the many families from Oklahoma who were displaced from their homes due to circumstances surrounding the Great Depression, including dust storms, and severe financial troubles. These circumstances forced them to head west towards California in search of new homes, and new opportunity. The Joads family, along with many other people like them were referred to by the at the time as "Okies", an "Okie" was a derogatory term used for people who had been removed from their homes, and forced to migrate elsewhere. The rest of the country considered these people to be nothing but useless outcasts. Along the family's journey they came across various people who all provided some type of significance to the story. The man who spoke to them about the advertisement for 300 pickers signified the discouragement and lack of
It gives the viewer the impression that hopeful, and positive outcomes are more than likely to come out of any bad situation. The ending of the film does not really commensurate with the historical facts of the era, because it gives such an optimistic view of such a dismal time. Another example of neighborly help was the people the family met at the bus stop. The policeman who stopped them at the border was an example of a neighbor helping out. He let the family pass through the border without holding them back or checking their car, because he knew they just needed to move along. This "home" the family lived in was only one of the many hardships the family had to face. The family went in to buy food, and they didn't realize that the price of the bread was per loaf, not for the whole thing. The movie's ending shows the individual strength Ma Joads represented for her family, but does not stress how the devotion, and loyalty of a family will force you to find a way to survive by any means, especially when in desperate situations. When they finally did find means of employment the supervisor asked them how many men, women and children there were, so they could all live and work there in horrible conditions, where they made little money and were treated almost as bad as slaves by the orchard supervisor. The waitress tried to explain this to them, but they didn't understand, instead they just continued buying more food, and candy. This was a place many poverty stricken people had to live in at the time. Not only did the family have no money for food, but they also had no money for a home. The cook informed the waitress to just let them take the food, and pay with what they had.
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