Grapes of Wrath & Great Depres
Imagine waking up one day and finding yourself on a filthy floor full of rags or maybe a street corner. You look at yourself to find you are wearing the same clothes you wore yesterday and the day before. However, they are filthy with lots of holes in the knees and elbows. You touch your hair only to find a pile of grease and dirt that obvious it has not been washes in days, or maybe even weeks. You have no place to do ever since you lost your job. You are hungry, but you ignore it because there is nothing for you to eat and you have no money to buy food. You have no job, money, family, and hope. You have just experienced how it was like during The Great Depression. The Grapes of Wrath is historically accurate in the problems that people went through during the Great Depression. It is a story of one family in particular, and a group of people, and what they went through during that period. As far as accuracy goes, the family does not exist, but they represent what families had to go through then. The Great Depression is the worst and the longest economic collapse in history of the industrial world. It began in 1929 and ended in the early 1940's. It all started when the wealthy made large profits, but the Americans spent more t
A review in IFilm, a person rated the film a three and said, "This is a good Hollywood movie - movie being the important term. It really comes nowhere close to the original novel's scope or poetry. It never really captures the unearthly quality to the earthly characters' struggle and journey." # He compared the movie with the book and I thought that he might be right. The book is very different from the movie because in a book, the writer has to write in a way where the reader can picture the image of what is going on in the book To get a better view of what happened during The Great Depression, a film called The Grapes of Wrath depicts what went on during that time. The director, John Ford, released the movie in 1940. Some people found the movie depressing and pretentious. Critics asked if people who struggled during the depression would want to go and watch a movie about people like them. Well, people did watch it, and it became a popular movie. Ford won the Oscar for Best Director and had many nominations in the Academy Awards. The people found the movie inspiring especially the speeches by Tom and Fonda Joad at the end of the movie. A year later, another movie released that parodied The Grapes of Wrath, called Sullivan's Travels. While the American was struggling to live through the Depression, President Herbert Hoover was creating programs to help farmers. In May 1933, the government passed the Agriculture Adjustment. The aim of this act was to help raise the farm prices by growing fewer crops. It also helped farmers attain low int
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Approximate Word count = 1046
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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