the Grapes of Wrath
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 hardships imposed by banks and big businesses to earn the fast buck.The story begins with the description of the conditions in the Dust Bowl Region of Oklahoma that ruined the crops and brought about massive foreclosures on farmlands. Our first introduction with Tom Joad is, him standing outside a diner trying to catch a ride with a trucker who has a “No Riders” sticker on his truck. Tom has been recently released from prison for the crime of “Homicide”. He is attempting to make it back home to his folk’s land, which they’ve lived on for over 50 years. On the way home, after being dropped off by the trucker, Tom hooks up with his old preacher Jim Casey. Mr. Casey has “lost the call” and has now become a wonderer. Upon their arrival to Tom’s home, they find it a banded and in shambles. They discover, from a neighbor, Muley Graves, that the banks have been foreclosing on most of the sheer croppers farms and leaving families out in the
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Approximate Word count = 1306
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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