Grapes of Wrath-Fiction vs. Non Fiction
A portrait of the bitter conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to the injustice of the time, and of a family’s quiet, forbearing strength, The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature, one that captures the horrors of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl as it probes into the very nature of equality and justice in early twentieth century America.In the epic tale of the Joad family’s migration from the terror floating in the midst of the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to the “Eden of California”, John Steinbeck depicts the lives of ordinary people striving to preserve their humanity in the face of social and economic desperation. When the Joads lose their tenant farm in Oklahoma, they join thousands of others, traveling the narrow concrete highways toward California and the dream of a piece of land to call their own. Each night on the road, they and their fellow migrants recreate the past, and rather, faraway society where leaders are chosen, silent standards of privacy and generosity evolve, and passion, violence, and malicious rage erupt (Bender, 20-25). Published in 1939, John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath drew attention to the hardships faced by the "Okies": poor farmers who
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Approximate Word count = 2856
Approximate Pages = 11 (250 words per page double spaced)
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