The Grapes Of Wrath Survival Analysis

These were the Hamilton children. And it was mystery how Liza, produced them year after year and fed them, prepared food, clothes, “and clothed them with good manners and iron morals too” (East Of Eden 54). Sometimes brought children with strict code is to make them better in moral. But Cyrus was never strict instead he was angry. Liza enjoyed universal respect because she was a good woman and raised good children. She could hold up her head anywhere. Her husband and her children and her grandchildren respected her. In East of Eden she was exact opposite to Cathy, and best example of wife, mothering and moral of her family. Hamilton and Liza were good at parenting and done their duty fruitfully to their children without partiality. They know
Of Couse a family need head with same noble qualities. In The Grapes of Wrath the family survival was much difficult in the wilderness of ‘Depression period’. The Joad family’s primary concern is survival in the ‘promised land’, for them the enemy was not only the nature but the authoritative Government too. Ma was head of the family at any cost tried to protect family unity. And she knows in the survival process more they need is unbroken family rather than money. Finally they made survival possible by collective effort. Here “collective effort” stands for Steinbeck’s ‘phalanx’ or ‘group man theory.’ Joads survival was possible because, which cost them loss of members like Grandparents (Granpa and Granma), two sons (Tom and Noah), and a still born baby of Sharon. Joad family survival takes other helps too like Wilson and his wife, Jim Casy, and a store keeper in the last cotton ranch and finally Mrs Wainwright. And Joad never forget to help the others, they have given lift for Cay and Wilson and his wife in the exodus to California. The best deed of poor migrants is to help each other in their wilderness is clear out by Ma’s decision to save a starving old man. By made her daughter Sharon to feed starving man by her own milk, this shows helping other is insignificant feature for survival of any family. The helping tendency makes it clear that the meaning of ‘human’ we call our
Like The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men also deals with migrant workers, and their trouble in survival. Which means helping each other in loneliness. In The Grapes of Wrath family ‘love” which drove them safely, like that driving feature is friendship between two intranets, but a destructive one, not like Joad family because the members of the group has only two friends. By loss of innocent Lennie their dream of fat land of their own was