Part 1 of Essay
John Steinbeck’s the Grapes of Wrath, is a novel which tells a tale of a family and their treacherous migratory experience from Oklahoma to California in search of a solution to their life’s hardships. In the 1930’s a terrible cluster of dust clouds collected over parts of the Midwestern United States, the area formed a t ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... already had enough troubles dealing with the effects of industrial farming (French 200). The farmers described in the novel were sharecroppers whom had settled the land many generations before, the effects of the Dust bowl, and the forced migration were not at all beneficial to the people of this land. The family, which Steinbeck wrote about, although fictional, represented a sample of the thousands of farmers that were forced off their land and into a new part of the country (French 8). The Joads were a ....