Migration In John Steinbecks The Grapes Of Wrath - opinion
Janata Weekly at your finger tips! Register to get Janata Weekly into your mailbox and whatsapp! Subscribe to Hardcopy Impacts of unjust systems manifest in many ways, but few are as poignant as independent, proud farmers being displaced from their farmland and forced to migrate to a distant and unknown place to seek work in uncertain conditions. That this novel was the main contribution on the basis of which the noble prize for literature was awarded to this great American writer is only the lesser reason why this novel will never be forgotten, the main reason being the enduring relevance of this epic saga of despair and hope for all times. Set against the background of the Great Depression and the dust bowl disaster of the s in the USA, this epic book tells the journey of the displaced Joad family from the Oklahoma across a vast desert to the fruit gardens of California in search of new livelihood. The struggles of this family and its various members are inter-woven with the larger reality of the displaced farmers moving away from ancestral homes as migrant workers in a cruel system. The scenes and episodes of the book are so gripping in their stark reality that any artificial dramatic effect is not really needed. Migration In John Steinbecks The Grapes Of Wrath.Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on Thee Joads, a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industry changes and bank foreclosures forcing tenant farmers out of work. Due to their nearly hopeless situation, and in part because they were trapped in the Dust Bowl, the Joads set out for California.
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