A review by _kaylee_m_
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

4.0

Steinbeck sure knows how to write for English teachers. The entire book leads up to the last few pages where he uses his strongest symbolism to promote his thesis. Throughout the book the Okies situation is compared to slavery. At the end, the dead baby floating down the flood waters in a make-shift Moses basket will do nothing to deliver them but be one less mouth to feed. Yet despite all the depressing imagery, hope is not entirely lost. Men have been reduced to being as helpless as infants, but there is still hope that they can get by if "someone",no matter how poor their circumstance, can do "something" .