Blog 33

The author Steinbeck of Grapes of Wrath does an amazing job with the descriptions of character, events, weather, and many other things. Everything in the book, Grapes of Wrath, just seemed so real. A lot of the events and things in the novel were very hard to grasp that it actually happened. Steinbeck did a very nice job writing the book and making it so descriptive. I really do think that he is a good author and did a wonderful job writing the Grapes of Wrath. The setting of the book is the most brutal and dramatic. As a reader we got every detail on the way that the Joad family was living at all times(Steinbeck 259). Everything that they had to go through does not even seem real to me because it was so bad. I just really could not imagine going through some of the things the Joad family had to go through day in and day out. The Joad family lived in such bad situations including, dust, starvation, death, extreme pain, suffering, and extreme poverty. I am sure there were other things that people of this time period went through that was not even mentioned in the book.

Members of the Joad family not only saw these things, but had to go through them. The family lost crops due to the drought and the dust, because of the lost crops they did not have much money, their grandparents were passing away. All in all the conditions they were being forced to live in were just not good, not good at all. However, sadly this is how most people lived in this time. It was the Great Depression when this book was written and most people just did not have a choice and had to get used to these conditions. I think Steinbeck wrote this book because he wanted people to get an insight to what it was like then. He did not sugercoat it at all. He was real and provided his reader with honest opinions and facts from this time.


They lost all of their crops from dust, they did not have much money, their grandparents passed away, and they never had that great of living situations. It was during the Great Depression, and that was just how it was, and people were used to it. The author of this book, Steinback, was a good person to right about something like this. Steinback was just a real kind of guy. He was not afraid to provide the readers of his books with the honest details, and that is just what he did in this book.

Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Penguin, 2006. Print