The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck and Robert DeMott created this book long ago and when it was first published it was thought to be something unique and controversial. Although people linked controversies with the book it didn’t lose its fame and rose higher as compared to Of Mice and Men and Travels with Charley in Search of America. The book takes us back to the era of the Great Depression when different people suffered differently in their life. One thing was for sure i.e no one was living a peaceful life in his home because everything was ruined completely.
The good thing in the book is that the author has not tried to hide anything instead he has gone for the raw mode. Tom Joad and his family are at the center of this book because we are discussing their life on a large scale. The family like many others was asked to move west because they were given hope that they would get everything they desire on that part of the land.
At first, they were not ready to move but then they were forced and they had no other option except to move toward the west. The promises that were made with the family were based on lies and the only thing they found on that piece of land was shattered dreams and nothing else. In the world of today, most of us cannot believe that such things have happened in the past.
Humans have suffered greatly during the Great Depression and this is the tale of a single family that the author has painted here. There were millions who were thrown away and they starved in a hellish way.