Review of: The Grapes of Wrath

An outstanding story that will touch your soul, The Grapes of Wrath delivers a shocking piece of reality. Of hard times and pulling together while others try and bring you down. John Steinbeck captures the hearts of his readers in this novel. While revolving around ecological concepts, family values, biblical views, dynamics and morals are set off into a masterpiece of literature.
Set in the dustbowl of Oklahoma, nesteled in the red country, the Joad family sharecrops on what was once their own farm. Generations are born, raised, and have died on this land. After crops fail, the Bank, referred to as the monster, forecloses, tearing the people from the land (ch. 5). The Joads as well as half a million others, are forced to leave the ground they are a part of. They become homeless and destitute, as their lives as well as the land, fill with emptiness (ch.11). In search of hope the Joads travel west in a truck, with dreams of good jobs, fresh fruit, and little white houses....