Data Bases • Custom Term Papers • Free Term Papers • Free Research Papers • Free Essays • Free Book Reports • Plagiarism? Links • Top 100 Term Paper Sites • Top 25 Essay Sites • Top 50 Essay Sites • Search 97,000 Papers @ DirectEssays.com • Search 101,000 Papers @ ExampleEssays.com • Search 90,000 Papers @ MegaEssays.com Free Essays • Term Paper Sites • Chuck III's Free Essays • Free College Essays • TermPaperSites.com • Free Essays • My Term Papers • Essay World • Planet Papers	Search Lots of Essays Back to Subjects - English None Provided16 None Provided16 In The Grapes of Wrath, Stienbeck illustrates such powerful images using his own values. When the Joad family starts deciding to move to California for a better life, the story begins. Tom comes home from prison and the family is reunited. The hopes of all are refreshed and the move seems to be a good idea. And here we have one of Steinbecks greatest value, the family or the group, and the ties that lie within it. This value is seen through many different examples in this novel. The first and the main example of the family value would most obviously be seen through the Joad family. Even though each person has his or her own separate and unique personalities, as a family they act as though they are one person. It makes important decisions as a group; such as moving to California. Then moving as a group; taking everyone at all costs. It reacts to major events the same. As a group, the Joad family makes the long journey across the country. As the story plays on, the Joads merge with Wainwrights and the Wilsons. Bringing the sense of a whole back to the immagrants. And again like the Joad family, everyone shares to make things work out for all. This idea is the value of family that Steinbeck is portraying. In the Government camp, Steinbeck’s values are shown on a larger scale. With the cooperation of hundreds of men and women, a suitable camp is formed in the midst of a corrupt society. The people act as one; they elect their own leaders, and obey the laws that are set. A set of laws that must be followed because without the laws, there would be no group. Allowing the group to prosper from all the individuals. In one scene there are three people who try to cause trouble at a dance. With the unison of the camp, the outcasts are surrounded and discarded without any ruckus. Steinbeck shows that with a group, things can get done. As the story comes to a close, the Joad family is almost all broken up. In a bigger perspective than the government camp, the final scene implies what Cassy was trying to say from the beginning; that nobody has an individual soul, but everybody’s just got a piece of a great big soul. When a man is near starvation, as the son puts it, “ He’s dirty, I tell you! He’s starvin’ to death….Got to have soup or milk.” Rose Sharon feels a need to help. A sensation to bring the individual into a group; a strengthening of the week. She asks everyone to leave her alone with the dyeing man. She bares her breast and lets him drink for his life. At the very end of the novel she smiles mysteriously. A smile-giving hint that finally Rose Sharron has felt the power involved within a family. Steinbeck’s value of the family is seen through the Joad family, the government camp, and Cassy and Rose Sharron. It’s a sense of unity, a power that is only felt when people are brought together. That “we” is far better than “I” in any situation. Bibliography: Word Count: 531
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