The Grapes Of Wrath Section One: Chapters 1-7 The first part of the book speaks of the troubles in Oklahoma during the Great Depression. Dust overwhelms the crops, the land, and the people. A truck is parked outside a diner; the driver leaves and runs into Tom Joad, who tricks the driver into...

The Grapes of Wrath," by John Steinbeck is a book about the Great Depression, and one poor sharecropper family's struggle to survive the worst deprivations that American society had to offer. Set in the 1930's, in America's "Dust Bowl," it is the tale of the Joad family, a large clan of poor Okla...

THE GRAPES OF WRATH BY JOHN STEINBECK The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck tells the specific story of the Joad family in order to point out the hardships and cruelty suffered by white migrant laborers during the Great Depression. It is the vivid enactment of individuals facing hardship...

"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 p...