Rose of Sharon- The Grapes of Wrath

Rose of Sharon had a very important role in the Joad family. That important role she had was that she gave the Joads hope. Rose of Sharon was pregnant when she was heading to California. She was the oldest of Ma and Pa's daughters and she was Connie's wife. Connie and Rose of Sharon have high hopes in the future when they were heading into California. Little did they know that the life in California was not as what they saw it as. They were thinking they were going to have their child and going to start a family in California. In the middle of the book Rose of Sharon's husband, Connie, abandons her and leaves her with the unborn baby. Luckily, Rose of Sharon has Ma in order to keep her from leaving also. Now Rose of Sharon is very scared of what is going to happen to her baby. Now that it has no father, she knows that the life she thought it was going to have was not going to happen. When Steinbeck says, "But I felt it hurt. I felt it kinda jar when I yelled" (Steinbeck 130). Rose of Sharon realizes after the Joads dog gets hit by a car that something happened to her baby. She said in this quote that "I felt it kinda jar when I yelled" she is explaining what happened inside her stomach when the dog got hit by the car and she yelled. In the beginning of this book, Rose of Sharon was a lady that was high spirited and a dreamer. Towards the end of the book, Rose of Sharon became a women who finally came into reality. After her baby died and after her husband left her, she still went on and became a women and gave another man and her family hope. It was very easy during a time like this especially after losing your husband and your "unborn" child to fall into a depression state, but Rose of Sharon proved that wrong and went on helping a man who was about to die of starvation and gave him a new beginning as well as her family.

Bibliography

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