The Grapes Of Wrath Was A Novel Written By John Steinback. What Is It About?

The grapes of wrath was written about life in the dust bowl, the midwest, during the great dperession.

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John Steinbeck's novel, "The Grapes of Wrath," recounts one family's struggle during the Great Depression in the 1930s. The Joads, a family in rural Oklahoma, are evicted from their farm and end up travelling west in the hope of finding employment and a new livelihood in California. As such, Steinbeck's work is very much about the difficult life and struggle for survival of dispossessed migrant workers.

Steinbeck based his account of migrant labour on both contemporary news articles, as well as personal field visits in 1937 to areas of California heaviest hit by the influx of migrants from other states. Steinbeck made a second trip to the camps that often housed the labourers in 1938 and was very much angered by the deplorable standard of life he encountered and the ill treatment of the migrants. Steinbeck claimed that 5,000 families were starving to death in the interior valley of California. According to the author, big banks and corporations were sabotaging any government aid efforts.

Steinbeck published "The Grapes of Wrath" in 1939 and his book became an instant success. It sold 428,900 copies in a single year and became a bestseller. The book also won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. By the 1990s, bookstores and publishers had sold more than 14 million copies of Steinbeck's voluminous book.

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