Struggles In The Grapes Of Wrath
Meherun Jannat
Mrs. Schreibman
English 3 AP
Period 1
May 27, 2018 Everyone in this world goes through different problems, difficulties and struggles. Some go through mental problems, some go through physical problem. Then there are those kind of people who struggle to live everyday in their life. They struggle to earn money and get food for their family. John steinbeck is a well known American writer. He writes about the latter kind of people. His works for the most part are based on the downtrodden of the Great Depression, and made graphical through his use of christian symbolism. He has written many articles and books to illuminate the struggles of those downtrodden people. John Steinbeck has been called by many people as regional …show more content…
Even though he had worked on the same group of people during the same period of time, he had shown the struggles they faced from different perspectives. In “The Grapes of Wrath” he showed how a migrating family struggled during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl years. While in “Of Mice and Men” he illustrated the average daily life of a single migrating worker. The scarce of jobs made life harder for both kinds of people. But it was a greater deal of problem for the migrating families than the individual migrating workers. The single migrating worker had less responsibilities. They only had themselves to take care of and depended on themselves. If things got worse in a certain workplace, they could just get out of there and look for a new place. But for the migrating family, like Joad family in “The Grapes of Wrath”, things weren’t that easy. It was far more complicated and difficult for them to survive at that time. The family members relied on each other. They not only had themselves to take care of but also had to take care of other family members. They couldn’t just leave a place whenever they wanted. A single man could sleep or live in any place but a family can’t. There are Children to be taken care of. The migrating families had to accept the lowest unfair wages or else they would starve to death. All these struggles and difficulties are portrayed in many books and articles of Steinbeck. (Moss, Joyce and Wilson
Mrs. Schreibman
English 3 AP
Period 1
May 27, 2018 Everyone in this world goes through different problems, difficulties and struggles. Some go through mental problems, some go through physical problem. Then there are those kind of people who struggle to live everyday in their life. They struggle to earn money and get food for their family. John steinbeck is a well known American writer. He writes about the latter kind of people. His works for the most part are based on the downtrodden of the Great Depression, and made graphical through his use of christian symbolism. He has written many articles and books to illuminate the struggles of those downtrodden people. John Steinbeck has been called by many people as regional …show more content…
Even though he had worked on the same group of people during the same period of time, he had shown the struggles they faced from different perspectives. In “The Grapes of Wrath” he showed how a migrating family struggled during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl years. While in “Of Mice and Men” he illustrated the average daily life of a single migrating worker. The scarce of jobs made life harder for both kinds of people. But it was a greater deal of problem for the migrating families than the individual migrating workers. The single migrating worker had less responsibilities. They only had themselves to take care of and depended on themselves. If things got worse in a certain workplace, they could just get out of there and look for a new place. But for the migrating family, like Joad family in “The Grapes of Wrath”, things weren’t that easy. It was far more complicated and difficult for them to survive at that time. The family members relied on each other. They not only had themselves to take care of but also had to take care of other family members. They couldn’t just leave a place whenever they wanted. A single man could sleep or live in any place but a family can’t. There are Children to be taken care of. The migrating families had to accept the lowest unfair wages or else they would starve to death. All these struggles and difficulties are portrayed in many books and articles of Steinbeck. (Moss, Joyce and Wilson