Journal From 'Grapes Of Wrath'

He was still alive when I passed in front of him. His tongue was still red, his eyes were not yet glazed. Behind me I heard the same man ask where is God now? And I heard a voice within me answer him: Where is He? Here He is-He is hanging here on this gallows? (Wiesel 62)

As I started to read chapter one I was thinking “This is going to be so boring” but I just kinda had to get more into. And as I was in the middle of chapter one I was expecting Jody to come home from school and everything was going to be all happy and joyful, of course that wasn’t going to happen it’s too easy. So when Gabilan died, I think Jody over reacted, I mean, yeah I get it he’s sad and everything but he didn’t need to kill other animals. And I was kinda shocked when the chapter ended like that. I was hoping that something else would happen.

Josh Turner once said, “Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that are able to take those punches and able to move forward are the ones that really do have a lot of success and have a lot of joy in their life and have a lot of stories to tell, too” (Hardship Quotes). Rudy Ruettiger had many struggles in his life that set him back. He has taken those punches from life and moved forward getting closer to his dream every step of the way. He defied everyone’s doubts and beat the odds. This man wanted so badly to get into Notre Dame and he did just that. Shawn Grim, on the other hand, was a man who did not come from a very successful family. He had to work harder than ever before just to attempt to achieve his dream. Shawn did not succeed at his dream and was filled with heartbreak because of it. Rudy Ruettiger and Shawn Grim both had very similar dreams, but different hardships to work through that broke one down and

John Steinbeck’s novel, The Grapes of Wrath is one of the most influential books in American History, and is considered to be his best work by many. It tells the story of one family’s hardship during the Depression and the Dust Bowl of the 1930’s. The Joads were a hard-working family with a strong sense of togetherness and morals; they farmed their land and went about their business without bothering anyone. When the big drought came it forced them to sell the land they had lived on since before anyone can remember. Their oldest son, Tom, has been in jail the past four years and returns to find his childhood home abandoned. He learns his family has moved in with his uncle John and decides to travel a short distance to see them. He

The 1930’s era was an incredibly tumultuous time for the United States. The stock market crash of 1929 and the Dust Bowl exacerbated the already high tensions between the rich and the poor. These tensions were also present and becoming a growing problem within the justice system of this era. As the country plunged into the depths of the Depression, the poor treatment of men and women imprisoned within the country’s jails deteriorated as well. The Dust Bowl along with the economic conditions the country, at the time led to the disparate treatment of prisoners at this time. Prejudices against certain groups of people during this time were very strong. This prejudice was demonstrated in John Steinbeck’s, The Grapes of Wrath, especially

The Grapes of Wrath is set in the horrible stage of our American history, the Depression. Economic, social, and historical surroundings separate the common man of America into basically the rich and poor. A basic theme is that man turns against one another in a selfish pride to only protect themselves. For example, the landowners create a system in which migrants are treated like animals and pushed along from one roadside camp to the next. They are denied decent wages and forced to turn against their fellow scramblers to simply survive.

Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 7.2, 12 October 2015), November 1858, trial of JOHN HENNESSEY (22) (t18581122-68).

Chapter 11 in Steinbeck’s novel, The Grapes of Wrath, is an intercalary chapter that explores the aftereffects of the abandoned houses left by the migrant farmers. In chapter 11 of The Grapes of Wrath, the author depicts the impact of the vacancy through the interactions between the wildlife and the houses and through the rupture of the houses.

he knows will come some day: “I shall die, and shall I not then be as

One reason why i know all was not right was because in the book on page 12 paragraph 4 it says. “Rush then noted that in recent days he had seen an unusual number of bilious fever, accompanied with symptoms of uncommonly malignity”. which shows that more people are getting sick with similar symptoms. So they realized that there was a sickness going around.

In John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath, the supporting character Jim Casy is characterized as faithless. Casy is a former reverend of a church, and after re-encountering his old friend Tom Joad, the two have a conversation to catch up with each other. Casy states that the religious spirit is declining in his community, and he leaves his job because he does not believe that religion matters anymore. He starts using words he would not say as a preacher, and he justifies it: “maybe you wonder about me using bad words. Well, they ain’t bad to me no more. They’re jus’ words folks use, an’ they don’t mean nothing bad with ‘em”(32). This evidence reinforces the concept that due to the lack of religious spirit in Casy, he does not believe there is anything wrong with religious exclamations because the words are just common amongst people. Like Casy, people who do not believe that doing something is bad see nothing wrong with doing it. When young children find out that Santa Claus is not real, they start doing things against the rules unknown to others, contrary to when they believe that Santa is always watching them and that they always have to follow the rules. Also, Casy’s thoughts on religion change after leaving his job as a reverend. When the Joad family asks for a prayer in a time of hardship, the family calls upon Casy because he is a former preacher. But since Casy has left his religious duties, he has

The protagonist of this story is Tom Joad. Tom must overcome several conflicts when he is paroled from jail and let out into an economically depressed country. Tom's physical conflict throughout the novel is the task of surviving the horrible starving conditions of America's Great Depression. He also has physical conflicts with people who only wish to destroy the hopes of migrant workers such as the police and strikebreakers. Tom's emotional conflict deals with his inability to get good work and take care of his family. Tom had feelings of worthlessness until he decided to run away and attempt to organize the migrant workers against the wealthy California landowners with inspiration from his close friend Jim

The fifth chapter presents a remarkable contrast between the natural way of life and the modern methods of farming. It is an achievement of the drama in which the sharecroppers are evicted from their land. In the narrative chapters that follow, the Joads will be the victims of comparable circumstances. In this chapter, Steinbeck describes the tenant's encounter with the tractor driver as he destroys the tenant's house by driving through the doorway. He captures the lack of hope as the tenant merely steps aside and watches his home plummet in front of his own eyes.

The Dust Bowl, a series of severe dust storms in the 1930’s, left the southern plains of the United States as a wasteland. The storms occurred due to the lack of use of dryland farming techniques to prevent wind erosion. Powerful winds would pick up loose soil and carry the sediment around the countryside. Called “black blizzard” or “black rollers”, these storms had the potential to black out the sky completely. Due to the inability to grow and sell crops, banks evicted families and foreclosed their properties, leaving them homeless and without an income. The author of The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, wrote his American realist novel to allow readers to understand the experiences of the migrants from the Dust Bowl era. Not many

“Following the conclusion of each session at the Old Bailey, the Recorder of the City of London sent a report to the crown on all the convicts who had been sentenced to death, recommending some for pardons. Convicts could also appeal their sentences by petitioning the King directly for a pardon