From the words of Saki, "Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up". In most ways, this is true according to the book, The Grapes of Wrath. The main characters, the Joad family, don't have much money so they try finding job opportunities in California. Throughout the whole book the family...
The Glass Menagerie and The Grapes of Wrath are works of literature set in this time period. ... Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath and Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie are both young adults who are forced with the pressure of leading and supporting their families during the Great Depression, while attempting to discover who they are. ... Both characters seem to lose their tempers very easily. ... The similarities of these characters set up an interesting character foil. The turning point of both the play, The Glass Menagerie and the novel, The Grapes of Wrath reveal that the Tom of each ...
Characters: In this story, Tom Joad is the protagonist; he is Ma and Pa Joad's favorite son. ... Plot: In the beginning of the "The Grapes of Wrath," Tom Joad gets released from prison after four years for killing another man. ... Grampa agrees and says that when they get there, he will fill his mouth full of grapes. ... Reaction: The Grapes of Wrath was surprisingly an interesting book. ...
Description of Main Characters: Tom Joad, the first person we meet in the book, was put in the McAlester State Penitentiary for four years for the crime of manslaughter. ... He says that he will squash many grapes in his mouth and let the juice run down his face. ...
