The Grapes Of Wrath By John Steinbeck

Lastly, Steinbeck was a WWII transcript writer during the earlier years of his life. During this time, Steinbeck had not yet become known and one of the only ways that he could get paid for his writing was to be a war correspondent for the Herald Tribune in Europe. This took place in 1943, yet it stayed with Steinbeck for the rest of his life. This is illustrated in his most successful novel titled The Grapes of Wrath. This novel was about a family trying to survive during the second Great War. The detail put into The Grapes of Wrath proves that Steinbeck's prior knowledge of the war helped him in his writing.

His writings were based on his personal experiences during his time of doing manual labor for a living (FamousAuthors.org 2012). He truly understood the difficulties of the working class people during the Depression. Steinbeck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his book, The Grapes of Wrath (FamousAuthors.com 2012). He was also awarded the Nobel Prize for literature (FamousAuthors.com 2012). The Grapes of Wrath was made into a movie, as well (FamousAuthors.com 2012). The book was described as “a portrayal of the merciless agricultural economic system” (FamousAuthors.org

In the novel, Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, depicts the struggles between upper class, middle class, and poor, migrant workers which show how natural human greed and selfishness amongst those with sustainable income increases tension between the separate classes. Steinbeck also uses the empathetic views shared amongst those in the same situations and how it gives them a want to help each other survive. The rich are wasteful with things they are unable to profit from; they cannot stand the poor nor the thought of the stagnation of their company. They are unable to accept a large consistent profit; the business itself is not the monster that begins to die from a constant profit but the greedy humans behind it.

John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California. John decided to be a writer at the very young age of fourteen. “John used to lock himself in his bedroom and to be alone and write stories and poem”(John Steinbeck Biography). John was the first in his family to have a striving desire to become a writer, his father did everything he could to keep food on the table and his mother was a former school teacher. To do this he worked several jobs at a time, he never got to enjoy what he does like Steinbeck went on to do. John went on to try to be a freelance writer, so he work as a construction worker and a newspaper reported in New York, New York. He wrote his first novel called The Cup of Gold while living in Lave, Tahoe working as a caretaker. John went on to marry Carol Henning. She was supportive by working several jobs to help him continue with his writing career.

The Grapes of Wrath, written by John Steinbeck, is a novel which demonstrates the lives of families during the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and the struggles they faced on their route to California. Throughout the novel, Steinbeck applies his writing style in order to convey the theme and general plot of the novel.

A monopoly is when a firm sells a product that has no substitutes and is the only seller of that product. In the book “The Grapes of Wrath”, John Steinbeck really portrays the idea of monopoly in the peach picking incident. A firm gains monopoly power when they are able to set prices. This occurred when the Joads were fixing their flat tire, they got offered a job as peach pickers in Hooper Ranch by a well-dressed man. On their first day of the job, the Joads need to be escorted by police because there are people angrily yelling by the entrance. When they began their job as peach pickers their wage was five cents per box. The whole family worked from morning to sundown, only to earn a dollar on their first day of work. However, they were paid in credit and had to go to the company store in order to use that credit. Then that same night, Ma went to the company store to buy something for dinner. She realized that the prices for the goods were much higher than normal and was only able to buy some not so tasteful looking burgers and coffee. Then when she asked why the prices on the goods were higher, the clerk said ““yes, it’s high, an’ same time it ain’t high. Time you go on in town for a couple poun’s of hamburg, it’ll cos’ you ’bout a gallon of gas. So you see it ain’t really high here, ’cause you got no gallon a gas.” (Steinbeck) What he means by this is that since the area is isolated and the company paid only in credit, the only place to buy goods is the company store.

Of mice and men, published in 1937 is one of the most important and influential novels of John Steinbeck. The American author was born in 1902 in Salinas, California in the United States. Salinas was a prosperous farming community in 1920’s .Therefore, the geography and demographics of Steinbeck’s place of origin greatly influenced Steinbeck’s novels and development of his characters who have a strong identification with land. Steinbeck developed strong interest in writing in early adolescence in high school and after that, he was enrolled at Stanford University in 1919 which gave him opportunity to sharpen his writing skills majoring in English. The author is widely known for writing novels including award winning The Grapes of Wrath written

Steinbeck, who was born on February 27, 1902 in Salinas, California. He was the only boy and the third child of Olive Hamilton and John Ernest Steinbeck. He had two older sisters, Beth and Esther and one younger sister Mary. Steinbeck attended college at Stanford University in 1919 until 1923. He went to college on and off for six years, but never received a degree. After college, in 1925 he moved to New York City. Realizing that he couldn’t find a job, Steinbeck decided to move back to California. When he returned in 1929, he completed his first novel Cup of Gold (http://www.steinbeck.org/pages/john-steinbeck-biography).

John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California, on February 27, 1902. He studied marine biology at Stanford University and then traveled east on a freighter through the Panama Canal. Steinbeck went to New York to work as a newspaper reporter but soon returned to California and held a variety of jobs while he wrote. Steinbeck published Tortilla Flat in 1935, Of Mice and Men in 1937, and The Red Pony in 1937, which established his reputation as a forceful writer. In 1939 he wrote The Grapes of Wrath, which summoned up the despair and hardship of the early 1930's. John Steinbeck died in 1968. The Grapes of Wrath is a story about one family's hardship during the Depression and the Dust Bowl of the

That novel was followed by what most people believe is Steinbeck’s best book, “Grapes Of Wrath”, which was based on articles he had written in San Francisco, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. His talks of the poor conditions eventually caught the attention of Eleanor Roosevelt, who raised the standards, telling Congress to fix the bad parts of the labor laws and camp conditions. In all 17 of his works became movies or screenplays.

Steinbeck had a relatively normal childhood growing up in Salinas Valley California. Steinbeck was born on February 27 1902 in Salinas Valley, California. His father was John Steinbeck Sr. who worked as the Monterey County Treasurer, and his mother, Olivia, worked as a school teacher. Steinbeck mother

Some characters in his novels and inspirations mainly came from Salinas valley. John Steinbeck was born February the twenty seventh 1902,in Salinas, CA, USA. There were four children in his family and he was the only boy. While he was going to Salinas High School, Steinbeck worked as a farm hand at sugar beet farm. John graduated high school in 1919, and enrolled at Stanford school university.

     John Steinbeck wrote about what surrounded him. At the time he was writing, the nineteen-thirties, a great depression was plaguing the United States. Many people were out of work. Many farmers were losing their farms and homes. An extreme drought had also wrecked the farms of the Midwest and made them into what is now referred to as the "dust bowl". It was a terrible time to be poor, and most were. People died of malnutrition every day. In California, where Steinbeck resided, migrant workers dominated the workforce. Thousands traveled from all around to pick fruit in the farms of the Salinas Valley for minuscule wages. Thousands more could not find suitable

In the novel, The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, class conflict and money are presented numerous times. Steinbeck presents this theme by putting the characters through many trials. Using stylistics elements such as personification and allusions, class conflict and money is presented to show the significance of mistrust and dehumanization, as seen in social classes and humanity in general.

One of his most famous writings is The Grapes of Wrath. It was part of his “California novels” which was set among the people during the Great Depression. The Grapes of Wrath won the Pulitzer Prize in 1939. It also was part of the American literary canon. This book was considered to be Steinbeck’s masterpiece. Seventy five years after it was published it had sold fourteen million copies.