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Original Title:	The Grapes of Wrath
ISBN:	067001690X (ISBN13: 9780670016907)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Tom Joad, Rose of Sharon Joad Rivers, Ma Joad, Pa Joad, Uncle John Joad, Jim Casy, Al Joad, Ruthie Joad, Winfield Joad, Noah Joad, Grampa Joad, Granma Joad, Connie Rivers
Setting:	Oklahoma(United States) California(United States) United States of America
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for Novel (1940), National Book Award for Fiction (1939), California Book Award for General Literature (Silver) (1939), Audie Award for Classic (1999)

The Grapes of Wrath Hardcover | Pages: 479 pages

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Title	:	The Grapes of Wrath
Author	:	John Steinbeck
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	75th Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 479 pages
Published	:	April 10th 2014 by Viking (first published April 14th 1939)
Categories	:	Romance. Young Adult. New Adult. Contemporary. Sociology. Abuse

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized—and sometimes outraged—millions of readers.

First published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads—driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into Haves and Have-Nots evolves a drama that is intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, elemental yet plainspoken, tragic but ultimately stirring in its human dignity. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man’s fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman’s stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. At once a naturalistic epic, captivity narrative, road novel, and transcendental gospel, Steinbeck’s powerful landmark novel is perhaps the most American of American Classics.

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The Grapes of Wrath is a story about the pursuit of power by a few selected individuals and its domino effects on the society and the lives of thousands of people. While the story itself is set on the times of the Great Depression, back in the 1930s and 1940s, we can still trace parallels with the contemporary world were living in more than 60 years later. Sadly, still to this day, we can see in the news that there are people working for less than the minimal wage and under slave labor

Now Tom said, "Mom, wherever there's a cop beating a guyWherever a hungry newborn baby criesWhere there's a fight against the blood and hatred in the airLook for me, Mom, I'll be thereWherever somebody's fighting for a place to standOr a decent job or a helping handWherever somebody's struggling to be freeLook in their eyes, Ma, and you'll see me"And the highway is alive tonightnobody's foolin' nobody as to where it goesI'm sittin' down here in the campfire lightWith the Ghost of Tom Joadfrom

*Review contains a partial spoiler*If you read enough reviews, you'll notice that most of the people who gave this book 1 or 2 stars had to read the book for a high school class. Most of the 4 and 5 star ratings came from those who read it as adults. I recommend listening to those who read it as adults. Many people hate the ending, but I thought it was great. Creepy? Yes, but there was an immense amount of beauty and generosity in that creepy little ending. At one point in the story, Ma tol'

Book Review 3 out of 5 stars to The Grapes of Wrath, written in 1939 by John Steinbeck. I might have an unpopular opinion when it comes to this book, as it was fine but nothing fantastic for me. I admit, I read this in middle school, nearly 25 years ago, and never went back to read it again. I tend not to like books about awful things as the main plot. I don't mind when bad things happen, or circumstances change, but when the entire book is about the pain and suffering of a family, it doesn't

Whenever I revisit a classic I'm struck by how much more I get out of it now than I did when I was 24 or 19 or, God forbid, 15. Giving a book like the Grapes of Wrath to a 15 year old serves largely to put them off fine literature for the rest of their lives. The depth of understanding and compassion for the human condition as communicated by a book like this is simply unfathomable to those who haven't lived much life yet, but after you've gotten a healthy dose of living, it comes across like

Luckily, those times have not come back yet. In 2014 people in America were not starving.

If you are an American you need to read The Grapes of Wrath. It scares the poop out of me because, my fellow Americans, we are repeating history. If live anywhere else read it as well as a guide for what not to do.In the Grapes of Wrath Mr. Steinbeck tells the tale of the first great depression through the Joad family from Oklahoma, who has been displaced from their family farm through no fault of their own. You see, there was a big bad drought which made farming impossible. In those days the