One Cover…Two Stories

No simple definition can describe religion, however, with the many affiliations between Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath and the Bible, one can easily envision what it entails. When first beginning my journey with the Grapes of Wrath, I merely embraced it for its literal meaning. I soon realized that doing so limited my ability to understand it at the intellectual level it called for. Changing my unfit ways, the story promptly took a new turn, for I was awestricken at its author’s clever ability of interfacing biblical ideas and concepts. Now, tailing alongside the Joad’s journey was surprisingly only half the battle, for with the story’s consistent uniting with the Bible, one could only be drawn deeper into this epic of the ordinary, struggling to preserve their humanity.
Jim Casy, a former preacher and martyr of his own beliefs, can easily prove his Jesus-like role in the Grapes of Wrath. On an observable note, Jim Casy’s initials, J.C., directly correspond with those of Jesus...