Grapes Of Wrath Analysis
Just like how the Joads moved across country for a better living and financial situation in The Grapes of Wrath, people today are fighting for a higher minimum wage and for a better financial situation. However the Joads moved in the 1930’s from Oklahoma to California because they couldn’t afford to farm any more and needed more options. Today people from fast food restaurants and department stores are fighting because they can’t afford rent and other necessities on today’s low minimum wage of $8.75 an hour. The minimum wage workers get paid so little that they will have to take up second jobs to be able to provide for their families. Likewise the Joads needed multiple people in their family to have a job for all of them to be able to eat
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Similarly in the article “Fast-food strikes widen into social-justice movement” low wage workers are said to often be treated rudely and not listened to by people who are wealthier or higher up on the social scale. The low wage workers even started a protest with signs that said “Fight for 15” referring to the fact that they would like the minimum wage price to be raised to $15 an hour. They were protesting to the higher ups that weren’t listening to them. The Joads and the low wage workers are a part of the lower to middle class in society, thankfully people in the same class in society tend to stick together and support each other, whether that’s protesting or moving across country …show more content…
Being lower on the social scale lessens the chance of being listened to by people higher on the scale. But throughout the years money has become more valuable and we have started using more of it, which would make you think it would be easier to be higher up on the scale because there is more money in circulation. Sadly it just makes being high up on the scale extremely exclusive and hard to obtain. Back when the Grapes of Wrath was written, things cost less but people got paid less and during that time people tended to have bigger families. Due to the bigger families and less money in circulation it was still difficult to be a part of the upper
Similarly in the article “Fast-food strikes widen into social-justice movement” low wage workers are said to often be treated rudely and not listened to by people who are wealthier or higher up on the social scale. The low wage workers even started a protest with signs that said “Fight for 15” referring to the fact that they would like the minimum wage price to be raised to $15 an hour. They were protesting to the higher ups that weren’t listening to them. The Joads and the low wage workers are a part of the lower to middle class in society, thankfully people in the same class in society tend to stick together and support each other, whether that’s protesting or moving across country …show more content…
Being lower on the social scale lessens the chance of being listened to by people higher on the scale. But throughout the years money has become more valuable and we have started using more of it, which would make you think it would be easier to be higher up on the scale because there is more money in circulation. Sadly it just makes being high up on the scale extremely exclusive and hard to obtain. Back when the Grapes of Wrath was written, things cost less but people got paid less and during that time people tended to have bigger families. Due to the bigger families and less money in circulation it was still difficult to be a part of the upper