He was going back to his family's farm in Oklahoma. ... When they get close to home they find deserted farms. ... The Joad family was one of the families forced off their land. Tom finds his family at his Uncle John's farm. ... Later in the story, at Weedpatch farm, the women had to work right alongside the men because the contractors were paying so cheap. ...
Very few made enough money to feed a large family. ... After a short time they go together to find the Joad family. ... Tom is exploring a peach farm when he runs into Casy and a group of men. The group is leading a boycott against the peach farm because of low wages. ... Jim Casy in The Grapes of Wrath is like a Jesus Christ to the migrant farm workers. ...
By the mid-1930s, the drought had crippled countless farm families, and America had fallen into the Great Depression. Unable to earn money they like many other farm families they traveled to California with hopes of finding work. But the farm country of California quickly became overcrowded with people in the same situation. ... The men on the farm call her names like "tramp and "looloo". ... They had to uproot and set adrift because tractors were rapidly industrializing their farms. ...
Grapes are used as metaphors for the anger and bitterness of the migrant families (including the Joads who are the novel's central family) that are forced to leave their land and homes. ... For instance, they are forced off of their farm, lose family members, and are faced with having to find money, food, and shelter. ... Everything the turtle encounters tries to stop it from reaching its destination; the same can be said about the Joad family. ... Once the tractors flatten the Joad farm, Tom finds that the only living thing left near the house is a cat which emerges when he returns home ...
It tells the story of the Joad family from the time of their eviction on their farm in Oklahoma, to their first winter in California. ... The opening chapter describes the lives of farm owners dealing with the drought in Oklahoma along with a dust storm. ... After meeting Jim Casy in chapter four, they finally reach the Joad farm that has been deserted and damaged. Next, they learn from Muley Graves, a neighbor, that Tom's family was evicted, so both Tom and Casy travel onwards to family relative, Uncle John's home, in hopes of catching up with Tom's family before their big m...
The novel, The Grapes of Wrath, concerns a group of people labeled "Okies" in the nineteen-thirties who were driven from their farms and from their land during the Dust Bowl (a period of severe drought). ... This novel is about two lower class farm hands that travel from town to town attempting to find a steady job. ... A quote from Chapter Seventeen in The Grapes of Wrath provides another example of how Steinbeck alluded to Bible stories: "The families learned what rights must be observed - the right of privacy in the tent; the right to keep the past black hidden in the heart; the right to ...
Tom explains that he is going back to his Father's farm. ... He goes back to his hometown in Oklahoma to see his family. ... He tells Tom that his family moved in with his Uncle John. ... When Tom and Jim ask Muley if they can sleep at his farm for the night, he tells them that he's been evicted too and he is on his way to California. ... The Joad family is in Hooverville at a dirty camp. ...
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. ... the Joad family had to abandon their home and their livelihoods. They had to uproot and set adrift because tractors were rapidly industrializing their farms. ... Times were rough for the Joad family as well as many other families. ... This turtle is like the Joad family because they are also faced with many obstacles while trying to tra...
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. ... the Joad family had to abandon their home and their livelihoods. They had to uproot and set adrift because tractors were rapidly industrializing their farms. ... Times were rough for the Joad family as well as many other families. ... This turtle is like the Joad family because they are also faced with many obstacles while trying to tra...
He was born into a middle class family and was the third of four children being the only boy (Hamilton 26). ... The book is about two laborers during the depression who have a dream of saving money to start up a rabbit farm. ... The book is about how a family is forced from their farm during the dustbowl depression era and they migrate west to California for a better and more sustainable life. ... He's known most for his writing about families and relating it to problems he's faced in his life and has lived through. ... Steinbeck had a lot of influences from his family, for example h...
The Joads, as well as thousands of other families, were forced to leave the homes they lived in and the lands they farmed on for many generations (Hinton 1). ... Young family members often times took to the roads and the rails on their own fearing that they were a burden to be taken care of for their families. ... Steinbeck makes it a point to show how the Joads are only one of many families enduring these hardships as it was apparent that friends and other families were taking the same journey. The loss of family members such as when Grandpa dies on the trip was not an uncommon occurrence...
As a result, some farmers, lost so much money that they could not pay the mortgage on their farm. ... When the Joads lose their tenant farm in Oklahoma, they join thousands of others, traveling the narrow concrete highways toward California and the dream of a piece of land to call their own. ... These desperate migrant families, upon their arrival, frightened the established citizens of California and were labeled "Okies," a derogatory term referring to any outcast from the Southwest or northern plain states. ...
At the cotton farm, Tom realized he could not stay out of other peoples" business, and he started to help form workers" unions and better the lives of others. Ma Joad, Tom's mother, was the one who kept the family together. ... Even after Grandma and Grandpa Joad's death, she kept the family together. ... As Tom is conversing with everyone in his family, the same idea is all in their mind. ... Ma does not like the idea of anyone splitting up the family. ...
