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The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past? No. Leave it. Burn it.
The Joads have to move out of the east and migrate North because of the historical Dust Bowl that's failing the crops, soil, and agriculture. Boo! Who want's to read a book like that? Well, I actually gave it a serious read. And I learned a lot. More than I thought. So, why should you read this book, then?
The Grapes of Wrath highlights the devastation of the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression era of the U.S., and focuses on one family--the Joads--as they travel through Route 66 and their experiences in higher-class California as "Okies".
This novel really highlights how it feels to be a lower-class American during this era in time; Nobody appreciated you, nobody saw you as human, and nobody thought you were worth more than a nickel. This novel does a fantastic job of humanizing its farmer characters, including the Joad family and others like ex-Preacher Jim Casy and Wilkie + Timothy Wallace. We get deep introspections into each character and really start to understand them like we're experiencing their tragedies with them, whether it be the aggressions faced towards the lower-class, the absence of food, or the harsh conditions of minimum-wadge slave labor.
The Grapes of Wrath is an excellent showcase of the human condition through despair and hope, similar to Steinbeck's most acclaimed novel East of Eden, this book really gets you to sympathize with the characters and feel for their situations, which Steinbeck does enchantingly through his disturbingly human dialogue and wicked good prose.
Through little intermissions throughout the narrative, Steinbeck tells us about the Dust Bowl itself and its the problems it's caused for farmers in the East, whether it be highly descriptive paragraphs about starving children or powerful one-liners about the power of the bank and how unforgiving it is towards the average working man, the man will make you 100x more appreciative of your situation and 100x more understanding of the less fortunate.
Truly one of the most endearing and sincere American novels of its time, Steinbeck's simple yet elegant prose makes this super easy to read and digest, not wasting a single amount of impact on any unnecessary words or plot points. Realistic, witty, and sadly relevant to this day.
The Joads have to move out of the east and migrate North because of the historical Dust Bowl that's failing the crops, soil, and agriculture. Boo! Who want's to read a book like that? Well, I actually gave it a serious read. And I learned a lot. More than I thought. So, why should you read this book, then?
The Grapes of Wrath highlights the devastation of the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression era of the U.S., and focuses on one family--the Joads--as they travel through Route 66 and their experiences in higher-class California as "Okies".
This novel really highlights how it feels to be a lower-class American during this era in time; Nobody appreciated you, nobody saw you as human, and nobody thought you were worth more than a nickel. This novel does a fantastic job of humanizing its farmer characters, including the Joad family and others like ex-Preacher Jim Casy and Wilkie + Timothy Wallace. We get deep introspections into each character and really start to understand them like we're experiencing their tragedies with them, whether it be the aggressions faced towards the lower-class, the absence of food, or the harsh conditions of minimum-wadge slave labor.
The Grapes of Wrath is an excellent showcase of the human condition through despair and hope, similar to Steinbeck's most acclaimed novel East of Eden, this book really gets you to sympathize with the characters and feel for their situations, which Steinbeck does enchantingly through his disturbingly human dialogue and wicked good prose.
Through little intermissions throughout the narrative, Steinbeck tells us about the Dust Bowl itself and its the problems it's caused for farmers in the East, whether it be highly descriptive paragraphs about starving children or powerful one-liners about the power of the bank and how unforgiving it is towards the average working man, the man will make you 100x more appreciative of your situation and 100x more understanding of the less fortunate.
Truly one of the most endearing and sincere American novels of its time, Steinbeck's simple yet elegant prose makes this super easy to read and digest, not wasting a single amount of impact on any unnecessary words or plot points. Realistic, witty, and sadly relevant to this day.