In John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, symbolism holds a very crucial part in telling the story. Throughout the novel, many symbols are used, the most apparent of which are that of a turtle, grapes, various symbols from the bible, and a cat. ... The symbols in The Grapes of Wrath help explain the themes of the novel. ... Steinbeck uses many biblical symbols in this novel aside from the grapes. ... John Steinbeck, in The Grapes of Wrath, deftly employs symbols to express his view to readers and to clearly define the themes he wishes to get across, while adding a level that brings hi...

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Two primary examples of this theme are the literary works by John Steinbeck and Ayn Rand, The Grapes of Wrath and Anthem, respectively. ... The Grapes of Wrath is a novel by John Steinbeck that exposes the desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families of America during the 1930's lived. ... Each symbol used in the novel show examples of both extremes. ... Anthem's representation of the theme is similar to The Grapes of Wrath. ... The Council of Scholars can be juxtaposed with the rich landowners in The Grapes of Wrath, in the way that they didn't consider thei...

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THE GRAPES OF WRATH The Grapes of Wrath is a novel by John Steinbeck that exposes the desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families of America during the 1930's lived under. ... Steinbeck uses many symbols throughout his book to make points, from the turtle to the rain at the end. The turtle is one of the symbols that I have picked up on. ... There are many things that I can use in order to relate The Grapes of Wrath to our society, but the one that I choose is unemployment. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

THE GRAPES OF WRATH The Grapes of Wrath is a novel by John Steinbeck that exposes the desperate conditions under which the migratory farm families of America during the 1930's lived under. ... Steinbeck uses many symbols throughout his book to make points, from the turtle to the rain at the end. The turtle is one of the symbols that I have picked up on. ... There are many things that I can use in order to relate The Grapes of Wrath to our society, but the one that I choose is unemployment. ...

• Word Count: 1596
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• Grade Level: High School

Grapes of Wrath Book Report When first released in 1939, The Grapes of Wrath, written by novelist John Steinbeck, created quite a stir among Americans still coping with the depression. ... Or grapes. ... The "grapes" of the novel are mostly associated to Grandpa, and at this point represent the dream of a greater life. ... Ma soon becomes a symbol of humanism, when she keeps quiet about Granma's death so the family can cross the desert without a huge letdown. ... John Steinbeck's novel, The Grapes Of Wrath, explains the dramatization of the forced migration of the "Okies" very c...

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Tom Joad in The Grapes Of Wrath Throughout the Novel, The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck, the main character of Tom Joad is viewed as many different things by the reader. ... Through out his many caring actions and loving deeds, Tom Joad becomes a symbol of the Biblical theme of growth in the novel. Tom also develops the idea that the continuation of life requires rebirth and that all people have the potential for rebirth in The Grapes Of Wrath. ...

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In his novel `The Grapes of Wreath` we can see his attitude towards people and conditions and the extremes of poverty, injustice and suffering. ... `The Grapes of Wrath` is evaluated as a document rather as a novel. ... One of the novel`s most important symbols, the turtle, is presented in the first intercalary chapter. ... Steinbeck`s subject in `The Grapes of Wreath` is not the adventures of the Joad family so much as the social conditions. ... We can find other symbols and parallels from the Bible: Rosasharn`s giving her breast to the starving man; Jim Casy (Jesus Christ); uncle Joh...

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Whereas Marx" study is on the one hand part of a long tradition, highlighting the contrast between the ideal Arcadia and the corrupting influences of civilization, it was innovative in the sense that it introduced to American studies an intriguing thesis about the role of the pastoral topos in American culture and literature - although already following the footsteps of Henry Nash Smith and his analysis of the "Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth" (first published in 1950, walking in a slightly different direction). ... Literary expressions range from Washington Irving to Nathan...

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Whereas Marx" study is on the one hand part of a long tradition, highlighting the contrast between the ideal Arcadia and the corrupting influences of civilization, it was innovative in the sense that it introduced to American studies an intriguing thesis about the role of the pastoral topos in American culture and literature - although already following the footsteps of Henry Nash Smith and his analysis of the "Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth" (first published in 1950, walking in a slightly different direction). ... Literary expressions range from Washington Irving to Nathan...

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He learned to read at age three, and was reading books such as John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath at age five. ... In this novel, a serial killer is on the loose in Seattle, Washington, scalping his victims, and leaving behind two bloody owl feathers, the Native American symbol for death. ...

• Word Count: 1246
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

As John Steinbeck wrote in the bestseller The Grapes of Wrath, "it was not nature that broke the people-they could handle the drought. ... (pg. 230) The Dust Bowl, even more so than the Great Depression, became the dominant national symbol of bankruptcy and ecological decay-the irony is that it was the capitalistic values that our country holds so highly that ultimately facilitated both the creation of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Lennie's puppy is one of the many symbols that represent the loss of the weak to the strong. ... John Steinback has won a noble prize, and another of his books, "grapes of wrath", which also describes a families plight during the same time as "Of Mice and Men" is also included as a classic. ...

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He loved all his experiences sailing the seas, and considers himself a symbol for all the other adventurers in the world. ... Dante's Ulysses is a tragic figure who dies while sailing too far in an insatiable thirst for knowledge, and ends up in Dante's Inferno when he knowingly uses wit to satisfy his worldly emotions of wrath and vengeance. ... "Lees" (line 7) refers to the bits of grape left in a bottle of wine. ...

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1. Born on September 4th, 1908, Richard Wright was born in Roxie, Mississippi (outside of Natchez) on a plantation where his illiterate father was a sharecropper. Wright was raised by his relatives at by the age of 17, he was ready to get out into the world. He headed into Memphis, Tennessee (his relatives lived right outside the city) where he worked odd jobs and educated himself. He read array of novels as he grew up and his education helped him realize the unjust ways of segregation. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School