The Grapes of Wrath

As the year 1930 comes along, an author by the name of John Steinbeck writes in detail a novel about the hardships of living at the times of the Great Depression, now is he the voice for all those in America? John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, in 1902. He was part German and part Irish. His father, John Ernst Steinbeck, was worked as a treasurer and his mother, Olivia Hamilton, worked as a teacher. He didn’t have so much a hard childhood but what kid now a days would want to go work on the fields everyday? Steinbeck later attended Salinas High School and then later he went to Stanford University. He went to New York where he worked as a reporter, but was later fired. Later he became a writer where his first book Cup of Gold. He first kicked off his real career when he moved to Pacific Grove with his first wife. The 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath was a Pulitzer prize winner and was made into a movie in 1940. After that the rest of his life was just uphill until he died on December 20, 1968.

The Grapes of Wrath is a novel about the time of the depression. It was the time of the Dust Bowl and it was a really big disaster that took place in the southwestern Great Plains region of the United States in the 1930's. It including part

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Most of the people didn’t even work for money back then but for food. What about the people that write or actually experienced being a landowner not just in California but anywhere? They wouldn’t have the same views as Steinbeck, and they might not even like the book at all.

Now that I’ve said that you have your own voice, which if you think about it, makes up America it’s time to talk about how the book changed America.

This book could be the voice of America to some. When they would get into California getting into town wasn’t easy the cops told them that they couldn’t stay in town they had to go on the outskirts of town, which they called Hooverville it’s supposedly where all of the Okies have to go. The towns put them there so the townspeople didn’t have to see them. Next is Al, he is a sweet guy on the inside with kind of a tougher outer shell. I can compare the fact that Steinbeck’s dad had the same name as him. Ruthie mostly hangs out with Winfield; she’s mostly just a very nosy child that can’t keep secrets. When they got all fixed up at the camp the cops told then that they would burn their stuff if they weren’t gone by morning. In The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck also helps us to be better observers of life, to see past stereotypes, and to be compassionate.

The family ends up at the end of the story no better than they had left off. Rose of Sharon ends up being abandoned by Connie and she also gives birth to her baby, which was ended up being dead. Also they need to know that it will be hard to get accepted when you are living in poverty. Then Rose of Sharon she’s married to a man named Connie Rivers who fills her with hopes, dreams, and a baby.

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