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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

GRAPES OF WRATH

                            The title "Grapes of Wrath", What does it mean?, may mean that it sucks, or may tell may tell that it is just about fruits, but it is better to judge a book buy it cover, to find out what lessons we be taught in this special book, that even if it has a funny title; From the second verse of Julia word Howe abolition song. One of the number one American of American classics. " Grapes of Wrath", written by John Steinbeck, when he wrote this book he had no inkling that it would attain such widespread recognition, through he did have hopes for its effectiveness.

                            What affects did the "Dust Bowl migration" of 1930's, cause?; a lot of families affected do to the migration, homes were destroyed, so people had to leave and by force. One of those families were The Joaas, from Oklahoma farm, who are driven off their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California.

                         Tom Joad, a man not yet thirty hitches a ride with a truck driver, he was just released from McAlester prison, where he served four years for murdering a man during a fight, when he just got back to the Joad's house he knew that they were evicted and they had to leave. Tom then finds the rest of his family staying with uncle John.

                       The Joads plan to go to California for the work. While the journey, the Joads lose two members. When They reach California and stay at the first camp they are found in  very horrible conditions, so they leave because there was police men. At the next camp officers try to come and make fights so they can close it up, Ma tries to hide from them.

                        From their trails and their repeated collisions against the lard realities of this new American Steinbeck creates a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, tragic but ultimately stirring in its insistence on human dignity.