Themes- The Grapes of Wrath

The themes in every book are always important to look at. Like in The Grapes of Wrath, the theme was the struggle with people and nature. To this day, everybody has struggles whether it is with nature or it is with people or socially. During this specific time in human life, people were struggling with nature with the Dust Bowl. Everyday farmers would go out to there crops to check out what is going on, the dust bowl just became a big drought. For farmers they would have to go and seek better places in order to make a living. Especially the farmers in this novel they do not want to see themselves fail because nobody in this world wants to fail. So in order to try to make life better they go and find a job somewhere else. When Steinbeck says, "Jus' let me get out to California where I can pick me an orange when I want it. Or grapes. There's a thing I ain't never had enough of. Gonna get me a whole big bunch a grapes off a bush, or whatever, an' I'm gonna squash 'em on my face an' let 'em run offen my chin" (Steinbeck 83). This shows that people were so excited to go and head out to California to just get away from all of this struggle whereever they were living. The author understands all of the struggles that go on throughout life that you have stay strong for. People during the Dust Bowl could of just stayed home and starved to death instead of heading to California, but people decided that they were not going to fail and head to California. That is what the Joads did in this situation, but instead of finding a job they were unable to live in the harsh conditions of these times. The universal theme in this novel told a lot about the history between people and nature throughout the Dust Bowl.

Bibliography

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