A Book Review of: John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck wrote this book in the hopes that people would be able to see what was happening to our nation’s people. He wanted to open their eyes to see the hardships that migrants faced everyday and he accomplished this through the telling of the Joad’s family story. Starting with the day that their ex-convict son comes home on parole, the lives …showed first 75 words of 557 total…

…showed last 75 words of 557 total…fill in the blanks. He would just give you the essentials that you would need to know, and your mind paint the rest and it would be exactly the way Steinbeck would have wanted it. His style of writing is not anymore difficult than any other style, but it will most likely slow you down, I know that I’ve spent some time re-reading passages that I might have not quite understood the first time.