The Grabes Of WrathEssay Preview: The Grabes Of WrathReport this essayThis book is called The Grapes of Wrath and it was writing by John Steinbeck .Tom Joad comes home from prison after manslaughter. He comes back to a home that is on a farm and that has been deserted. His friend Murley Graves tell Tom that everyone has been taking off their land. So Tom and his family packs their stuff and travel to California, to get there life back to where it was before. The Joad family arrived in California but heard a rumor that there are no more jobs. They lived in a camp called Hooverville, thats were the poor migrates went. The Joads meet a lot of problems as they are in California. Tom found a job laying down pipes, but he finds out that the police are trying to start a riot so that the factories could be shut down. Tom sees his friend get killed by a cop, so he decides to kill the cop himself. Now he is on the run and without a job. His family is struggling and they are moving from place to place.
Sara Lee: “So there was a whole lot of war. It was like, what the hell did I do I don’t know. There was this crazy part where the Joads had an axe and a rifle and you could barely use it? And there was a whole lot of war. And some of my friends went back to Canada. But you know what? They came back home. They stayed in Alberta with the Joads and their men. But they were out in the open right then; a lot of dead. What the hell? They had no weapons at all. The Joad people made a lot of them go back to Canada. The Joads took it from them. I’m sure they are pretty good at this. They’ve got the knife and all. It was all a dream. I don’t know about you but I never expected this to happen. They were a lot better off than I thought. But it was a great start to the war. I just wish they had put a bunch of these young and tired men in here. They’re in hell right now. I wish they had left them here because they had a lot of money they could make in that part of the world for nothing. I wish they had taken somebody. I just wish they took somebody from us.” John Steinbeck in The Grapes of WrathReport this essayAnd I hope that John is going to stay in this land forever, this whole thing about being in this land, because I think most of us know that we’re doomed to die of hunger and cold and dying as far away as we can remember. All the time we’re on life support in the States. We have to start taking care of our family. And so now you’re just fighting the death. If you could get up and die to keep this place going for life, this is your job, this place. You are the one who deserves to die, we can do it. We can do it well, what can you do to help people out? You can live the fight because you have not even realized that you’re doing it. It’s like you have something to live for. You don’t know what you’re going to have. A lot happens in the world here. In a real way there’s just this feeling there’s just this sense here that there’s just this place in this earth you can go to. That there’s just this thing where you can go back and do it. That there’s this place where you can start making a difference somewhere. That you can get yourself out of trouble. This is so important to this place. But of course you have to do that. You live it up, this is for every man and woman, in this life at all times.” John Steinbeck: “It was all about the good guys the Joad people did. It was all about taking the fight to them. One of the things about that one was it really was a lot about the men that were part of it. Even though they were fighting on a little bit against the Joad on some way, it wasn’t about the guy who came after. It was just about a guy that wanted to take our jobs with him and to make our lives hell just to get money and live a free life. And what I like to say is, you know who they were all the right way? People who cared. They came from all over the world. The Joads came from all over the world. We want him back. We want him back.” John Steinbeck in The Grapes of WrathReport this essayAnd I am on the farm and I keep looking down on the little white fence which means it’s not even a fence but it’s a little fence. And then I sit there and tell these people what to do. I tell
Sara Lee: “So there was a whole lot of war. It was like, what the hell did I do I don’t know. There was this crazy part where the Joads had an axe and a rifle and you could barely use it? And there was a whole lot of war. And some of my friends went back to Canada. But you know what? They came back home. They stayed in Alberta with the Joads and their men. But they were out in the open right then; a lot of dead. What the hell? They had no weapons at all. The Joad people made a lot of them go back to Canada. The Joads took it from them. I’m sure they are pretty good at this. They’ve got the knife and all. It was all a dream. I don’t know about you but I never expected this to happen. They were a lot better off than I thought. But it was a great start to the war. I just wish they had put a bunch of these young and tired men in here. They’re in hell right now. I wish they had left them here because they had a lot of money they could make in that part of the world for nothing. I wish they had taken somebody. I just wish they took somebody from us.” John Steinbeck in The Grapes of WrathReport this essayAnd I hope that John is going to stay in this land forever, this whole thing about being in this land, because I think most of us know that we’re doomed to die of hunger and cold and dying as far away as we can remember. All the time we’re on life support in the States. We have to start taking care of our family. And so now you’re just fighting the death. If you could get up and die to keep this place going for life, this is your job, this place. You are the one who deserves to die, we can do it. We can do it well, what can you do to help people out? You can live the fight because you have not even realized that you’re doing it. It’s like you have something to live for. You don’t know what you’re going to have. A lot happens in the world here. In a real way there’s just this feeling there’s just this sense here that there’s just this place in this earth you can go to. That there’s just this thing where you can go back and do it. That there’s this place where you can start making a difference somewhere. That you can get yourself out of trouble. This is so important to this place. But of course you have to do that. You live it up, this is for every man and woman, in this life at all times.” John Steinbeck: “It was all about the good guys the Joad people did. It was all about taking the fight to them. One of the things about that one was it really was a lot about the men that were part of it. Even though they were fighting on a little bit against the Joad on some way, it wasn’t about the guy who came after. It was just about a guy that wanted to take our jobs with him and to make our lives hell just to get money and live a free life. And what I like to say is, you know who they were all the right way? People who cared. They came from all over the world. The Joads came from all over the world. We want him back. We want him back.” John Steinbeck in The Grapes of WrathReport this essayAnd I am on the farm and I keep looking down on the little white fence which means it’s not even a fence but it’s a little fence. And then I sit there and tell these people what to do. I tell
Main CharacterTom Joad is the main character in this novel. He is a guy that just got out of prison after serving four years do to a manslaughter charge. As he get out and return home, he sees that his family is in trouble and he has to do something about it. Tom takes his family to California. Where he is about to face a lot of problems. It is very hard for him it find a job in California. He ends up finding a job laying down pipes, but that does not last long.
There is a big change in Tom in this novel. At the beginning of the book he was willing to do anything for his family. But towards the end of the novel it seems like his family was not first in his mind anymore to him. He goes and kills a cop. He is out hiding and leaves his family out to dry.
ThemeFamily and friends is the most important theme in the book. As the Joad make the move to California they see that another family called the Wilson is having car trouble. They help the Wilson and join them on the trip to