Grapes of Wrath

The tale happens during the late 1930's, in the heart of the immense gloominess. In essence, the setting shifts as the key characters shift westward across the United States, but starts in Sallisaw, Oklahoma and ends in California. Consequently, the entire novel atmosphere moves from sanguine to one of encouraged anxiety. According to Steinbeck (2006), The Grapes of Wrath is an interpretation on the misery and inflexible anxiety of the immense depression. In addition, the main characters endure several challenges with no end within reach, still are one way or another capable to uphold a sense of optimism and harmony. While conditions emerge to be deteriorating, even if there are people dying around them, the Joad kin keeps progressing, which is a precise representation of the state of mind of great despair migrants who found themselves annulled of alternatives and chances. Arguably, Mullins (2002) affirms that it is human nature to adhere to optimism, and to find others whom to share familiar idea. In this regard, Grapes of Wrath has continued to be read extensively and extolled since its publication, along with the stunning writing technique.

Steinbeck (2006) book presents three fundamental themes namely cruelty, friendship and family power, and the significance of self-esteem. Based on cruelty, the distress endured by the migrants was not a consequence of situation, but instead an effect of lack of knowledge and brutality of fellow Americans. For instance, California landowners thought that the migrants are a threat to their lavish and trouble-free standard of living, and effectively, believed it their right to meddle with the essential human rights of these migrants. Furthermore, the way the migrants were treated, it was unfairly than animals, provided with preposterously stumpy wages, and coerced to rely on each other for continued existence; thus the human terror, not condition, created the soreness. In friendship and family power theme, it was through the family and friends that survival in despair circumstances managed to become possible (Mullins, 2002). The Joad family regularly sacrificed individual respite for the wellbeing of the entire family and the concept of family is not restrained to a genetic standpoint in the tale. Moreover, the Joads and Wilsons turned out to be as one family, reference implies that faith in the significance of a well-built determination and self-esteem in the face of problems. For instance, if the Joads were frail in determination and powerless to act with conceit when enduring rage, then continued existence would have been implausible. Consequently, those with frail determinations, such as those who declined to progress after the police incinerated the Hooverville, starved (Mullins, 2002).