Summary
My purpose in the following work, was to focus my attention on the denunciation aspect and consequent suggestion of John Steinbeck in his 1939 novel The Grapes Of Wrath, a milestone in protest literature.
The novel is about an Oklahoman family, the Joads, which was obliged to move, for the banks wanted all the farmers to abandon the land because unable to pay their loans. The increasing capitalistic system and a huge drought hit the great plain zone in the middle west, so nothing was left to do for this family than to leave in search for new opportunities.
They shoved off toward West, leaving all their belongings behind and venturing along the highway 66 reaching California, the land of opportunities. But what they faced there was far more different from what they expected.
The migrant families, whose situations the Joads represent, were forced to live in awful conditions, camping in shanty shelters along ditches and living among filth and diseases, for they could not af
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