Message- The Grapes of Wrath

People in these modern times still read this book because it has so much history involved with it that it is so interesting to readers. It is interesting to see what people just like us had to go through in order to make a living for themselves and their families. The timeless part about their message and their characters is that their were people just like us who went through a huge drought and had to change places daily! It is just like today with people struggling with life or just with other people. It is not the same situation, but it is around the same idea. When Steinbeck says, "They came painting up to the rain-soaked barn and staggered into the open end. There was no door in this end. A few rusty farm tools lay about, a disk plow and a broken cultivator, an iron wheel. The rain hammered on the roof and curtained the entrance. Pa gently set Rose of Sharon down on an oily box. God Awmighty! he said" (Steinbeck 453). This shows that the Joads were just trying to find shelter for their family and how it was a struggle at the time to find one. The shed that they found was basically a broken and run-down barn. Steinbeck does a great job with showing or telling us how hard it was in order to just find shelter when you had no money. We can learn a lot from reading this novel, we can learn how hard it was for large or small families just like the Joads to find or meet the needs for themselves. It was a rough time to find money so some families would just starve to death. We can also learn that people just like us went through a lot struggles especially during the Dust Bowl. The novel, The Grapes of Wrath, showed readers that everyday people go through struggles and they have to stay strong and live with what they have got.

Bibliography

Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Penguin, 2002. Print.