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chichi14 's review for:
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
This book has one of my all-time favorite quotes:
How amazing. That's when you finally understand the title of the book. It’s also what those in power fail to fully understand about people: that there comes a time when the poor stop accepting so much suffering, exploitation, injustice, and indifference. And heir hearts fill with a special kind of wrath—the kind that fuels revolutions—and their hunger, once for bread, becomes hunger for vengeance, to set the world straight once and for all.
That's what the story of Tom Joad and his family is all about. A story of injustice perpetrated by politicians, banks, and corporations that care only for profit, while ignoring the suffering of the poor. Yet, Steinbeck reminds us that not all is lost, and there is still cause for hope.
I was particularly struck by the treatment that people from other states who emigrated to California received by the locals. They were treated as undesirable immigrants—ironic, huh?
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. [...] and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people, the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
How amazing. That's when you finally understand the title of the book. It’s also what those in power fail to fully understand about people: that there comes a time when the poor stop accepting so much suffering, exploitation, injustice, and indifference. And heir hearts fill with a special kind of wrath—the kind that fuels revolutions—and their hunger, once for bread, becomes hunger for vengeance, to set the world straight once and for all.
That's what the story of Tom Joad and his family is all about. A story of injustice perpetrated by politicians, banks, and corporations that care only for profit, while ignoring the suffering of the poor. Yet, Steinbeck reminds us that not all is lost, and there is still cause for hope.
I was particularly struck by the treatment that people from other states who emigrated to California received by the locals. They were treated as undesirable immigrants—ironic, huh?