Anarchy

Anarchy Grapes of Wrath By: kevin cremeens The Grapes of Wrath is a novel by John Steinbeck that exposes the desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families of America during the 1930's lived. The novel tells of one family's migration west to California through the great economic depression of the 1930's. The bank took possession of their land because the owners could not pay off their loan. The novel shows how the Joad family deals with moving to California, and how they survive the cruelty of the landowners that took advantage of them, their poverty, and willingness to work. The Grapes of Wrath combines Steinbeck adoration of the land, his simple hatred of corruption; resulting from materialism (money), and his abiding faith in the common people to overcome the hostile environment. The novel opens with a retaining picture of nature on rampage. The novel shows the men and women that are unbroken by nature. The theme is one of man verses a hostile environment. His body destroyed but his spirit is not broken. The method used to develop the theme of the novel is through the use of symbolism. There are several uses of symbols in the novel from the anarchy, novel, turtle, man, joad, theme, rain, nature, life, land, family, people, grapes, dust, against, through, showing, way, driver, willow, west, truck, symbols, struggles, several, represents, picture, environment, each, california, wrath, symbol, struggle, steinbeck, red, much, migrants, joad's, hostile, examples, end, develop, described, both, being, wind, verses, trying, tree, took, tom, things