Grapes of Wrath
Joad family saga
The Grapes of Wrath is John Steinbeck's 1939 novel about the Joad family's migration from Depression-era Oklahoma to California, driven off their land by drought and economic collapse.
The title, drawn from "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," evokes divine judgment on injustice.
The phrase now shorthand for righteous anger born of oppression: The workers' grapes of wrath had been fermenting for years.
- Dust BowlThirties prairie ecological collapse
- Great Depression1930s global economic crisis
- povertySevere lack of resources
- OkiesDust Bowl refugees, informally
- American literatureU.S. written works
Steinbeck · Tom Joad · justice · activism · Hoovervilles · 1930s · Route 66 · dirt roads · tenant farming · California · promised land · labor camps · oppression · human dignity · economic disparity · Pulitzer Prize · protest songs · sharecropping
- Labor LiteratureThe Jungle, labor exploitation
- 20th Century Books1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Catch-22, The Great Gatsby
- Classic BooksPride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Moby Dick, Moby-Dick, Great Expectations
- classicsHomer, Iliad, the Iliad, Odyssey, the Odyssey
- School ClassicsTo Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet, The Scarlet Letter
- American LiteratureThe Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Scarlet Letter, Moby-Dick, Moby Dick
Grapes of Wrathland of milk and honey
Place of great abundance
The Great Gatsby · prosperity gospel · success stories · Cinderella story · Pollyanna
Grapes of Wrathescapist fiction
Entertainment through imaginary worlds
romance novels · fantasy literature · utopian fiction · fairy tales · Pollyanna
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