The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

Shelby

The Grapes of Wrath is a great American novel that depicts the story of a family that migrates to the west in search... of... *falls over snoring zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

No really. This book is about the Joad family. Their farm is messed up by the Dust Bowl and the bank takes it away. Or something. Anyway, they have to leave, they go to California in search of work. PROBLEM! everyone else had the same idea. So they're a-goin' to California and on the way they see how people are: good and bad. What they find out is that they're being treated like outsiders... like how immigrants to the United States were discriminated against... they're also facing discrimination. THe Joads are helped by fellow travelers along the way, and learn that some people can't be trusted.

It was a good book, but it had an odd ending because it wasn't a happy one. The conflict of the novel was not really resolved. It just ended when they were in a cabin to escape the rain, and Rose of Sharon "helped" this guy that was going to die. So they didn't find a house, or get work, but their story definitely doesn't end there. I think the novel was meant to be kind of like a peek into their lives as migrant workers in the 1930s. or whatever decade it was in.

I liked this book a lot better than Invisible Man It was a lot less... abstract. yes, I'm gonna go with that.