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Amazon.com ReviewWhen The Grapes of Wrath was published in 1939, America, still recovering from the Great Depression, came face to face with itself in a startling, lyrical way. John Steinbeck gathered the country's recent shames and devastations--the Hoovervilles, the desperate, dirty children, the dissolution of kin, the oppressive labor conditions--in the Joad family. Then he set them down on a westward-running road, local dialect and all, for the world to acknowledge. For this marvel of observation and perception, he won the Pulitzer in 1940. The prize must have come, at least in part, because alongside the poverty and dispossession, Steinbeck chronicled the Joads' refusal, even inability, to let go of their faltering but unmistakable hold on human dignity. Witnessing their degeneration from Oklahoma farmers to a diminished band of migrant workers is nothing short of crushing. The Joads lose family members to death and cowardice as they go, and are challenged by everything from weather to the authorities to the California locals themselves. As Tom Joad puts it: "They're a-workin' away at our spirits. They're a tryin' to make us cringe an' crawl like a whipped bitch. They tryin' to break us. Why, Jesus Christ, Ma, they comes a time when the on'y way a fella can keep his decency is by takin' a sock at a cop. They're workin' on our decency." The point, though, is that decency remains intact, if somewhat battle-scarred, and this, as much as the depression and the plight of the "Okies," is a part of American history. When the California of their dreams proves to be less than edenic, Ma tells Tom: "You got to have patience. Why, Tom--us people will go on livin' when all them people is gone. Why, Tom, we're the people that live. They ain't gonna wipe us out. Why, we're the people--we go on." It's almost as if she's talking about the very novel she inhabits, for Steinbeck's characters, more than most literary creations, do go on. They continue, now as much as ever, to illuminate and humanize an era for generations of readers who, thankfully, have no experiential point of reference for understanding the depression. The book's final, haunting image of Rose of Sharon--Rosasharn, as they call her--the eldest Joad daughter, forcing the milk intended for her stillborn baby onto a starving stranger, is a lesson on the grandest scale. "'You got to,'" she says, simply. And so do we all. --Melanie Rehak The Grapes of Wrath - Wikipedia The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction ... Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation [us] - IMDb Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation - Filmography. Join IMDb Pro for more details! The History of Hypnosis The history of hypnosis is full of contradictions. On the one hand a history of hypnosis is a bit like a history of breathing. Like breathing hypnosis is an ... DreamWorks Animation Official Site of DreamWorks Animation ... The new generation of gaming platforms will help us expand our computer-generated movies into interactive entertainment like ... Literary Terms and Definitions P - Carson-Newman College This webpage is for Dr. Wheeler's literature students and it offers introductory survey information concerning the literature of classical China classical Rome ... Modern Library's 100 Best Novels - How many have you read? Modern Library polled its editorial board to compile this list of the best 100 novels of the 20th century. The Best Books: The Top 100 Novels of All Time - Listmuse.com The Best Books: The Top 100 Novels of All Time A contemporary list with an international flavour and a respect for the classics The Best Books: Top 100 Novels of ... The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - The Greatest Books This page contains details about the Fiction book The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck published in 1939. This book is the 43rd greatest Fiction book of all time as ... Modern Humanities Research Association :: All Publications ... 2016 Modern Humanities Research Association. MHRA is a company limited by guarantee. Registered in England Number 3446016 Registered Charity Number 1064670 Of Mice and Men - Wikipedia Of Mice and Men is a novella written by author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937 it tells the story of George Milton and Lennie Small two displaced migrant ranch ...
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