The Book Review of the Grapes of Wrath
The book, the Grapes of Wrath, shows us a piece of American history That was a dark time period The weather was very bad in Oklahoma, so the Okies are hing a hard time They went to California to find the chance to survive Because of the rich>he grapes of wrath, was written by the writer John Steinbeck in this time peri评od
The most special thing about this novel is that it shows the time period through two intertwined clues> The other clue, the story of the Joad family, shows the life of an ordinary Okie family at that time from the perspective of Okies They sold their possessions, bought a car, and drove west on highway 66, to find the chance to survive They hope they can find a work that paid enough to keep them alive in California, but the life in the west was much more difficult than they thought They were often expelled from the place their live, and with the little money they earned, they he to buy food with the price that is much higher than normal A lot of babies died before they are born, because of the malnutrition and overwork of the pregnant women This gives me a direct view of the hard of the Okies’ life
There are a lot of distinctive characters in the story For example, Jim Casey, the preacher, stopped being a preacher which can> There are many literary quotations in the story, a lot of story fragments are e from the Bible, like the desert>the Grapes of Wrath, is also from the Bible, and I think John Steinbeck wanted to use these words to warn the rich to stop focusing on their money and to think of others, or the anger of the poor will destroy them