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grapes of wrath

grapes of wrath In the beginning of the novel The Grapes of Wrath, the Joads are faced with the challenge of traveling rout 66 all the way to California. This is their solution for being tractored off their land and having no way to support the large family. This challenge is similar to the depression in 1929, when many people lost their jobs, home, and their whole life. The last of the family, the few left in end of the book represent the survivors of the depression. I don’t believe that the ending was adequate because it could have stated the struggle much more dramatically to prove a stronger point. In the beginning of the Joads journey they have their arms ready with hope of a brighter life and a little over a hundred bucks. Their journey truly begins when they are tractored off the land by a man on a machine. “ The man was an extension of the machine.” This quote demonstrates the loss of individuality; the man was nothing but a pawn in industrial game. Throughout the journey to California they run across many other people just like them, aiming for the same goal, California. This parallels to the depression again in how the large amounts of people, that were broke, hungry, and homeless, were all looking for the same goal, a better life. Ma’s quote, “ Use’ ta be the fambly was fust. It ain’t so now. It’s anybody worse off we get, the more we got to do.” ,shows how the family lost it’s “fire” or strive. Ma is saying that even when the “fambly” was fussing about things they still were lively, unlike now, they have no motivation and they are in a dead state of overwhelmed foresight. Ma is doing all that she can to not only keep the family together, but also keep the family going in the right direction while dealing with her own issues of constant overwhelming The novel closes with Rosa of Sharon offering her dead baby’s breast milk to a stranger, the father of a boy the Joads found leaning over him. While committing the gesture a “mysterious” smile crosses her lips. These closing lines signify the Christian belief that Jesus gave holy communion, his own flesh and blood, like Rosa of Sharon gave her milk. This closing act did little to show the reader that the Joads completed a full circle or that they were now a part of the larger family, humanity. There is still the struggle to keep the “family” of society together, which is harder than the keeping the Joads together, also there is still the battle between the immigrants and the owners. The ending is incomplete as an ending, it would flow just as well as any other part of the book, it lacks the any punch line final strong ending note. Casy’s vision, that he grew throughout the story, of the whole society sticking together as one great soul was shot down as soon as he stood up for it as a strong belief. Towards the end Casy began to live by his dream of this great soul and the read is able to see how he is doing in the fight for his dream. Casy set the whole purpose for the Joads and at the end of the story they all break off to join the great soul Casy so strongly Bibliography:

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