Grapes Of Wrath: Summary

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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 closely-knit family. As the novel opens, Tom Joad, their son, whom was returning from a seven-year jail sentence for manslaughter, rejoins the family. Tom returns home only to discover that home is no longer what he had left four years earlier. His family had moved in with their Uncle John, after the banks had taken away their home. The effects of the Dust bowl are already prevalent as Tom enters the novel. His family along with many others had been thrown out of their homes, because of the banks plan to incorporate commercial agricultural techniques after the farmer’s could no longer support to pay for their homes. After the Dust bowl hit in the Midwest, farmers ...

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first victim we see to fall as a result of the migration (Barrons 56). Throughout the journey the reader able to see that this pattern of giving up and fading out is common. Throughout the trip several characters fade out of the picture, in order not to face what may or may not await them in California. Soon after the death of the grandfather, we are able to see the character of grandma Joad, lose her will to live and she her self slowly fades out of the picture of life as well. As the story is told, a strong plot of the novel deals with the strength of the family and the importance of the family staying together in order to help each other toward the common goal of a better life. ...

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