John Steinbeck wrote this book to hope that people would see what was happening to our nation's people. He wanted to open their eyes to see the hardships migrants faced every day, and he accomplished this by telling Joad's family story. Starting with the day that their ex-convict son comes home on parole, the lives of the Joad never really go back to normal. After being evicted from their property by the bank, the whole family packs up and goes the only way they can... Their plight involves beginning a new life by casting away the past methods and being able to endure the misfortunes that life throws at them. Of course, their progress is hampered by an unreliable truck and by the "quest for the dollar" that all migrants had. Through their journey to find work and settle down, the Joad's encounter many calamities that test their relationship as a family and their limits! West.
             As individuals, as in real life, not everyone succeeds with their goals, and this story of hardship is no different. At the beginning of the book, we get an early look at Steinbeck's ideals when Muley Graves says,"...if a fella's got someone to eat an' another fella's hungry-why, the first fella ain't got no choice." This was very true back in the past and something that most people lived by. Families could not see people starve to death when they had food to eat themselves. Although they might be starting a new life, the ideals don't change because they make an individual unique. Uncle John Joad said, "Go down an' tell them. Go down in the street an' rot an' tell them that way." Steinbeck's writing style, as always, is rich with colorful language and erotic images. His pages are filled with lines such as, "The dust-filled air muffled sound more completely than fog does," and all sorts of literary elements from similes to personifications. There is!
             A reader will never get bored with The Grapes of Wrath because of how descriptive the settings are. The passage...